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Arts: Jews in Show Business & Entertainment A reading list of some of the most iconic Members of the Tribe in film, television, theater, and entertainment. Fiction A Short History of a Tall Jew Dennis Danziger Fiction Accidents Yael Hedaya; Jessica Cohen, trans. Nonfiction Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen Henry Bial Fiction Awake & Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays Ellen Schiff, ed. Fiction Broadway Baby Alan Shapiro Nonfiction Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld Visual Arts Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939-1949 Ken Sutak Nonfiction Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories Alan Zweibel Nonfiction Conversations With Woody Allen: His Films, The Movies, and Moviemaking Eric Lax Nonfiction Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance Rebecca Rossen Nonfiction Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture Jack Fischel, ed. with Susan M. Ortmann Nonfiction From Scratch: Inside the Tumultuous Billion-Dollar World of the Food Network Allen Salkin Fiction Funny Boys Warren Adler Nonfiction Growing Up At Grossinger's Tania Grossinger Visual Arts Houdini: Art and Magic Brooke Kamin Rapaport; Alan Brinkley et.al., contributors Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz Nonfiction How to Succeed in Business without Really Crying Carol Leifer Nonfiction I Drink For A Reason David Cross Nonfiction In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust Yehuda Koren & Ellat Negev Nonfiction In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture Ted Merwin Nonfiction Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater Jeffrey Magee Nonfiction Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince Mark A. Vieira Nonfiction Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance Deborah Jowitt Nonfiction Jewhooing the Sixties: American Celebrity and Jewish Identity David E. Kaufman Nonfiction Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem, eds. Nonfiction Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America Jeffrey Shandler Nonfiction Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl Steven Bach Nonfiction Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years, 1984-1990 Steve J. Sherman Fiction Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn Leslie Epstein Fiction Life on Sandpaper Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans. Nonfiction Little Failure: A Memoir Gary Shteyngart Nonfiction Loose Diamonds...and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way Amy Ephron Nonfiction Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor Nonfiction Memoir of an Independent Woman Tania Grossinger Nonfiction Mr. Funny Pants Michael Showalter Nonfiction Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations With the Great Women of Musical Theater Eddie Shapiro Nonfiction Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman Mark Cohen Fiction Peep Show Joshua Braff Nonfiction Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt Robert Gottlieb Nonfiction Schmucks! Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder Nonfiction Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations Jill Kargman Nonfiction Stella! The Mother of Modern Acting Sheana Ochoa, forward by Mark Ruffalo Nonfiction Tales of a Theatrical Guru Danny Newman Nonfiction The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M.G. Lord Nonfiction The American Jewish Story through Cinema Eric A. Goldman Fiction The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company Jay Neugeboren Nonfiction The Dangerous Animals Club Stephen Tobolowsky Fiction The Frumkiss Family Business Michael Wex Nonfiction The Gershwins and Me Michael Feinstein Nonfiction The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman Stephen Pascal, ed. Nonfiction The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB: A Secret History of Jewish Punk Steven Lee Beeber Nonfiction The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America Jacob Gordin; Ruth Gay, trans. Nonfiction The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street John P. Harrington Nonfiction The Making of Markova Tina Sutton Nonfiction The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema Dr. Nathan Abrams Nonfiction The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture Joseph Litvak Nonfiction Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio Carol Miller Nonfiction We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy Yael Kohen Nonfiction When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win: Reflection on Looking in the Mirror Carol Leifer Nonfiction Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World Norman Lebrecht Nonfiction Will Eisner: A Spirited Life Bob Andelman Nonfiction Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist Harriet Hyman Alonso Nonfiction You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
Nonfiction In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust Yehuda Koren & Ellat Negev
Nonfiction Schmucks! Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder
Nonfiction The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M.G. Lord
Nonfiction The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema Dr. Nathan Abrams
Nonfiction When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win: Reflection on Looking in the Mirror Carol Leifer
