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    Har­ry Brod

    Har­ry Brod is a pro­fes­sor of phi­los­o­phy and human­i­ties at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North­ern Iowa and the author of Super­man is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way (Free Press; Novem­ber 2012).

    Pass­port to Citizenship

    A Cou­ple of Say­ings with Which I Disagree

    Speak­ing Backwards

    No Mid­dle Range

    A Jew­ish Thanks­giv­ing in Avalon

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    A Jew­ish Thanks­giv­ing in Avalon

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ry Brod wrote about Jews not have a ​“mid­dle range,” speak­ing back­wards, a cou­ple of say­ings with which he dis­agrees and why he always…
    Har­ry Brod
    December 21, 2012
    Essay

    No Mid­dle Range

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ry Brod wrote about speak­ing back­wards, a cou­ple of say­ings with which he dis­agrees and why he always has a valid pass­port. He will…
    Har­ry Brod
    December 20, 2012
    Essay

    Speak­ing Backwards

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ry Brod wrote about a cou­ple of say­ings with which he dis­agrees and why he always has a valid pass­port. He will be blog­ging here all week…
    Har­ry Brod
    December 19, 2012
    Essay

    A Cou­ple of Say­ings with Which I Disagree

    Yes­ter­day, Har­ry Brod wrote about why he always has a valid pass­port. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.“It’s bet­ter…
    Har­ry Brod
    December 18, 2012
    Essay

    Pass­port to Citizenship

    Har­ry Brod is a pro­fes­sor of phi­los­o­phy and human­i­ties at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North­ern Iowa and the author of Super­man is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes…
    Har­ry Brod
    December 17, 2012
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    Super­man Is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way
    Har­ry Brod
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    Broth­er Keep­ers: New Per­spec­tives on Jew­ish Masculinity
    Harry Brod and Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, eds.

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