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Jewish New York (nonfiction)
1.
At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
by:
Rebecca Rosenberg
4.15 avg rating β 1,294 ratings
2.
Neil Simon's Memoirs
by:
Neil Simon
4.49 avg rating β 108 ratings
3.
Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side
by:
Lyla Blake Ward
3.60 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman
by:
Thomas Andrae
3.52 avg rating β 31 ratings
3.
Fierce Attachments
by:
Vivian Gornick
4.04 avg rating β 18,557 ratings
6.
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
by:
Ted Merwin
3.57 avg rating β 302 ratings
6.
Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form
by:
Paul M. Buhle
3.33 avg rating β 24 ratings
6.
A Walker in the City
by:
Alfred Kazin
3.88 avg rating β 703 ratings
9.
Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants
by:
Gil Ribak
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938β1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the JewishβComics Connection
by:
Martin Lund
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
by:
Hasia R. Diner
3.76 avg rating β 33 ratings
12.
1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
by:
Anne Roiphe
3.62 avg rating β 299 ratings
12.
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
by:
Simcha Weinstein
3.80 avg rating β 132 ratings
12.
Just As I Thought
by:
Grace Paley
4.04 avg rating β 219 ratings
15.
The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733β1748
by:
Edith B. Gelles
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
15.
Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950
by:
Jerry Robinson
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
15.
Concealed
by:
Esther Amini
4.36 avg rating β 644 ratings
18.
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
by:
Eddy Portnoy
4.07 avg rating β 212 ratings
18.
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and ... Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way
by:
Suzanne Braun Levine
4.02 avg rating β 101 ratings
20.
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History, 9)
by:
Kirsten Fermaglich
3.64 avg rating β 87 ratings
20.
Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical
by:
Barbara Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 190 ratings
22.
The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant's Story
by:
Ben Sonder
3.83 avg rating β 12 ratings
22.
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel
by:
Paul Levitz
4.19 avg rating β 63 ratings
24.
The Jews in America Trilogy: "Our Crowd," The Grandees, and "The Rest of Us"
by:
Stephen Birmingham
4.19 avg rating β 62 ratings
24.
Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
by:
Bob Andelman
3.76 avg rating β 78 ratings
26.
White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics
by:
Joshua M. Zeitz
3.42 avg rating β 19 ratings
26.
Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration: 1917-2017
by:
Will Eisner
4.43 avg rating β 21 ratings
28.
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
by:
Tony Michels
4.13 avg rating β 55 ratings
28.
Will Eisner: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)
by:
M. Thomas Inge
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
30.
New Yorkβs Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway
by:
Edna Nahshon
4.50 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Comic Book Artist (Vol. 2) #6 - Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Will Eisner
by:
Jon Cooke
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
32.
A Rich Brew: How CafΓ©s Created Modern Jewish Culture
by:
Shachar M. Pinsker
3.84 avg rating β 51 ratings
32.
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor i
by:
Bill Schelly
4.37 avg rating β 116 ratings
34.
Tales of the Village Rabbi: A Manhattan Chronicle
by:
Harvey M. Tattelbaum
3.59 avg rating β 29 ratings
34.
My Life As a Cartoonist: My Life As a Cartoonist
by:
Kurtzman
3.73 avg rating β 11 ratings
36.
Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery
by:
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
3.53 avg rating β 117 ratings
36.
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
by:
Denis Kitchen
4.33 avg rating β 195 ratings
38.
My Mother's Wars
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.07 avg rating β 118 ratings
38.
Jack Kirby: A Personal Look
by:
Jeremy Kirby
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
40.
From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America
by:
Jack Marshall
3.38 avg rating β 13 ratings
40.
Kirby: King of Comics
by:
Mark Evanier
4.12 avg rating β 2,444 ratings
42.
The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
by:
Jeffrey S Gurock
4.15 avg rating β 20 ratings
42.
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
by:
Ronin Ro
3.79 avg rating β 260 ratings
44.
Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
by:
Constance Rosenblum
3.71 avg rating β 65 ratings
44.
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby: The Wonder Years (Jack Kirby Collector / Presents, 58)
by:
Mark Alexander
3.96 avg rating β 24 ratings
46.
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
by:
Jane Ziegelman
3.78 avg rating β 3,170 ratings
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Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby (Great Comics Artists Series)
by:
Charles Hatfield
4.12 avg rating β 78 ratings
48.
The Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street
by:
Ann Birstein
3.44 avg rating β 9 ratings
48.
The Secret History Of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin
by:
Blake Bell
3.69 avg rating β 75 ratings
50.
The Jewish Community of Staten Island
by:
Jenny Tango
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
50.
The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio
by:
Mark Evanier
4.59 avg rating β 39 ratings
52.
Jewish New York: A History and Guide to Neighborhoods, Synagogues, and Eateries
by:
Paul M. Kaplan
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
52.
The Comic Book Makers
by:
Joe Simon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 32 ratings
54.
Jews: A People's History of the Lower East Side
by:
Clayton Patterson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
54.
My Life in Comics
by:
Joe Simon
4.05 avg rating β 103 ratings
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Jews: A People's History of the Lower East Side Volume 2
by:
Clayton Patterson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
56.
Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography
by:
Mary-Lou Weisman
3.93 avg rating β 202 ratings
58.
Jews: A People's History of the Lower East Side Volume 3
by:
Clayton Patterson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
58.
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
by:
Danny Fingeroth
3.70 avg rating β 679 ratings
60.
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
by:
Steven Lee Beeber
3.72 avg rating β 220 ratings
60.
Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
by:
Stan Lee
3.98 avg rating β 3,551 ratings
62.
Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
by:
Deborah Dash Moore
3.90 avg rating β 48 ratings
62.
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
by:
Jordan Raphael
3.67 avg rating β 177 ratings
64.
At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side 1880-1920
by:
Lawrence J. Epstein
4.12 avg rating β 26 ratings
64.
Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
by:
Stan Lee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 607 ratings
66.
Lost Synagogues of the Bronx and Queens
by:
Ellen Levitt
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
66.
Stan Lee: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)
by:
Jeff McLaughlin
3.43 avg rating β 28 ratings
68.
The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Conflict: Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews at Mid-Century
by:
Glen Anthony Harris
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
68.
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel
by:
Bob Batchelor
3.64 avg rating β 893 ratings
70.
When the Diamonds Were Gone: A Jewish Refugee Comes of Age in America in the 1940s
by:
Julian Padowicz
3.53 avg rating β 17 ratings
70.
The Stan Lee Universe SC
by:
Danny Fingeroth
3.56 avg rating β 9 ratings
72.
Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto
by:
Wendell Pritchett
3.76 avg rating β 29 ratings
73.
Jewish New York: Notable Neighborhoods and Memorable Moments
by:
Ira Wolfman
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
74.
After the Girls Club: How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America
by:
Carole Ford
2.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
75.
The Promised City: New York's Jews 1870-1914
by:
Moses Rischin
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings
76.
When Harlem was Jewish, 1870-1930
by:
Jeffrey S. Gurock
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
77.
The JEWS OF NEW AMSTERDAM
by:
Costabel
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
78.
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History
by:
Joseph Telushkin
4.37 avg rating β 1,058 ratings
79.
Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage
by:
Stephen D. Corrsin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
80.
Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America
by:
Fred Behrend
4.42 avg rating β 12 ratings
81.
Jews of Brooklyn (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by:
Ilana Abramovitch
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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A Jew Grows in Brooklyn: The Curious Reflections of a First-Generation American
by:
Jake Ehrenreich
3.50 avg rating β 16 ratings
83.
The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories
by:
Bernard Weinstein
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
84.
What I Saw at the Fair
by:
Ann Birstein
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
85.
The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995
by:
Carole Bell Ford
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
86.
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
by:
Irving Howe
4.12 avg rating β 431 ratings
87.
TREYF: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
by:
Elissa Altman
3.63 avg rating β 331 ratings
88.
Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education
by:
Morris Dickstein
3.82 avg rating β 22 ratings
89.
Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood
by:
Martin Lemelman
3.99 avg rating β 148 ratings
90.
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
by:
Kate Simon
3.82 avg rating β 248 ratings
91.
Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
by:
Nathan Abrams
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17 ratings
92.
Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
by:
Howard Markel
3.72 avg rating β 32 ratings
93.
Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side
by:
Jonathan Boyarin
3.74 avg rating β 27 ratings
94.
Dough: A Memoir
by:
Mort Zachter
3.35 avg rating β 252 ratings
95.
Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side
by:
Bella Spewack
3.87 avg rating β 71 ratings
96.
At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews
by:
Deborah Dash Moore
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
97.
The Miracle of Intervale Avenue: The Story of a Jewish Congregation in the South Bronx (Morningside Books)
by:
Jack Kugelmass
4.43 avg rating β 21 ratings
98.
New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise
by:
Beth S. Wenger
4.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Of Things That Used To Be: A Childhood on Fox Street in the Bronx in the Early Twentieth Century
by:
Nathan Lobell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
100.
Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
by:
Annie Polland
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings