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Amusing Jews

Amusing Jews

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 An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.Copyright Atheists United Studios Art
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  • Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter

    Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter
    Aug 11 2025
    Harold Schechter is a true crime author and professor emeritus at Queens College whose latest graphic biography is “Dr. Werthless,” illustrated and co-written by Eric Powell.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    “Dr Worthless”
    https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3012-934/Dr-Werthless-HC

    Harold’s website
    https://haroldschechter.com/

    Amusing Jews Merch Store
    https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/

    Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
    https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews

    Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
    https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    31 mins
  • Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora

    Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora
    Aug 4 2025
    Miriam Eve Mora is managing director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan and author of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century. Her chapter, “The Jewish Case for Fereginar,” is published in the book Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jews in Popular Science Fiction
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jews-in-popular-science-fiction-9781666901467/

    Carrying a Big Schtick
    https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349625/

    Raoul Wallenberg Institute
    https://lsa.umich.edu/wallenberg

    Amusing Jews Merch Store
    https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/

    Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
    https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews

    Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
    https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    37 mins
  • Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen

    Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen
    Jul 28 2025
    Jonathan Rosen is co-host of Pop Culture Retro and host of The Jewish Lens. He’s also the author and editor of several books, including Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies and Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jonathan’s website
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5E05jPfVs

    Pop Culture Retro
    https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureRetro

    The Jewish Lens
    https://www.youtube.com/@TheJewishLens

    Amusing Jews Merch Store
    https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/

    Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
    https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews

    Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
    https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    21 mins
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