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“fun to read”
— no mean feat given
the subject matter.

Holocaust, and the medium
proved its worth for exploring
even the most difficult topics.

— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Now there are a plethora of
weighty, meaningful graphic
novels by Jewish authors, many of
whom were recently featured in a
panel called “Ink Bleeds History: Reclaiming and Redrawing the
Jewish Image in Comics” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in
New York.

One of the panelists was Miriam Libicki, author of Toward a
Hot Jew. Libicki grew up Orthodox, went to Jewish day school,
and then joined the IDF and wrote a graphic novel about it. In
her newest collection of illustrated essays — rendered with
graphite, inkwashes and watercolor —
Libicki reflects upon Jewish identity,
from black-Jewish relations to the Israeli
soldier as fetish object. The book is
richly nuanced and philosophical, and
could open the eyes of both Israelis and
American Jews.

Another of the panelists, Amy
Kurzweil, also has a new book out:
Flying Couch. In this graphic novel,
Kurzweil tells the story of three Jewish
women: her, her mother and her grand-
mother, a World War II survivor who
disguised herself as a gentile to escape the Warsaw Ghetto. She
juxtaposes her own experience as an
anxious, preoccupied child with her
grandmother’s harrowing life, told in her
own words.

Meanwhile, her mother, a very
American psychologist, is the intermedi-
ary in this story of intergenerational
trauma. Though she takes on serious
topics, Kurzweil’s cartoony style makes for
an enjoyable, compulsive read, calling to
mind graphic novels by Roz Chast and
Alison Bechdel.

Finally, for a much lighter touch,
consider the new book by the beloved co-
star of Broad City Abbi Jacobson, a Wayne
native. Carry This Book is not a graphic
novel; rather, it’s a series of drawn set
pieces in which Jacobson imagines what
famous people (Donald Trump, Anna
Wintour, Bernie Madoff) and fictional
characters (Homer Simpson) carry in
their purses and briefcases.

Philadelphia’s Questlove, of the Roots,
said of the book: “Looking at these illustra-
tions and trying to guess who they belong to
is like an inside-out game of Where’s
Waldo?” Refinery 29 said, “This is the next
best thing to being BFFs with Abbi
Jacobson.” In other words, it’s the perfect
gift for the Jewish millennials in your life, all
of whom — trust us — do want to be best
friends with Jacobson.

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The Lives
There are a ridiculous number of memoirs
and biographies out right now by and about
Jewish people. But now
might be the perfect time to
gift The Man Who Knew:
The Life and Times of Alan
Greenspan by Sebastian
Mallaby. Mallaby, the Paul
A. Volcker Senior Fellow
for International Econo-
mics at the Council on
Foreign Relations, has been
praised for presenting a
balanced view of Greenspan, from his
childhood with a single Jewish mother in
Washington Heights to his role as Nixon
advisor to his leadership of the Fed, an insti-
tution of which he was deeply suspicious.

Mallaby naturally examines what and
when Greenspan knew in the lead-up to
2008’s crash, and the conclusions he draws
illuminate that time period and the role of
regulation overall. Ben Bernanke has said
the book is “highly recommended” for
“anyone with an interest in postwar U.S.

economic and political history.” The New
York Times said it’s “fun to read” — no
mean feat given the subject matter.

If you want to go from macro to micro
on the subject of Jews in American business,
pair The Man Who Knew with Lloyd
Handwerker’s Famous Nathan. The book’s
subtitle says it all: “A Family Saga of Coney
Island, the American Dream, and the
Search for the Perfect Hot Dog.”
Handwerker, who is Famous Nathan’s
grandson, wrote the story of his Jewish
immigrant grandfather with Gil Reavill,
starting with the illiterate Nathan’s arrival at
Ellis Island, when he didn’t speak a word of
English and had only $25 stuffed in his
sock, to a thriving business on Coney Island
that helped the hot dog become iconic.

“It all comes done to I did this, and I did
that.” That’s how Robert Gottlieb sums up
his new book, Avid Reader: A Life. Gottlieb
spent his life as an editor, at The New Yorker,
Knopf and at Simon & Schuster, and worked
with some of the most fascinating personal-
ities in 20th-century American letters, from
Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing
and Joseph Heller to Lauren Bacall, Nora
Ephron, Bill Clinton and Miss Piggy. His
memoir is filled with publishing world
gossip and also reveals much about his
Jewish New York boyhood. Dwight Garner,
of The New York Times, wrote that Gottlieb’s
memoir reveals him as “a kind of Zelig of
American publishing.” That’s precisely what
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