Episodes

  • 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/

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    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

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    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

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

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    21 mins
  • Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz

    Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz
    Jul 21 2025
    Roy Schwartz is a comic book historian, former CNN regular contributor, board member of the American Jewish Historical Society, and author of Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Is Superman Circumcised?
    https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/is-superman-circumcised/

    Roy’s website
    https://www.royschwartz.com/

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    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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    32 mins
  • Ep. 109: Jews & Westerns – with author Jonathan L. Friedmann

    Ep. 109: Jews & Westerns – with author Jonathan L. Friedmann
    Jul 14 2025
    Jonathan L. Friedmann is the president of the Western States Jewish History Association; vice president, academic dean, and director of programs at Ezzree Institute; admissions director and associate professor at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism; and director of the Jewish Museum of the American West. His latest book is Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Chai Noon
    https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chai-Noon

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    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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    38 mins
  • Ep. 108: Jews & Comic Books – with DC Comics legend Paul Levitz

    Ep. 108: Jews & Comic Books – with DC Comics legend Paul Levitz
    Jul 7 2025
    Paul Levitz is a comic book writer, editor, and executive best known for his decades-long association with DC Comics, which began as a freelancer in the early 1970s and included a tenure as the company’s president and publisher from 2002 to 2009.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Paul’s website
    https://paullevitz.com/

    Paul’s Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levitz

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

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    23 mins
  • Ep. 107: Eminent Jews – with author David Denby

    Ep. 107: Eminent Jews – with author David Denby
    Jun 30 2025
    David Denby is a New Yorker staff writer and New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Eminent Jews
    https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250193407/eminentjews/

    David’s website
    https://denby-david.com/

    David’s New Yorker columns
    https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/david-denby

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

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    40 mins
  • Ep. 106: Who was Jack Ruby? – with biographer Danny Fingeroth

    Ep. 106: Who was Jack Ruby? – with biographer Danny Fingeroth
    Jun 23 2025
    Danny Fingeroth is a biographer, cultural historian, and former writer and editor at Marvel Comics whose latest book is Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin. He also authored A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero; and Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Danny Fingeroth

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    The Many Faces of Jack Ruby
    https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/jack-ruby-products-9781641609128.php

    Danny’s website
    https://dannyfingeroth.com/

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    Cool Shul Cultural Community
    https://www.coolshul.org/

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    40 mins