Matzo balls for breakfast : and other memories of growing up Jewish / Alan King and friends.

A collection of anecdotes from celebrities about their Jewish childhoods includes contributions by Billy Joel, Billy Crystal, Michael Bloomberg, Woody Allen, and Steven Spielberg.

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Other Authors: King, Alan, 1927-2004
Other title:Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: New York : Free Press, ©2004.
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505 0 |a From Manhattan to Allentown to Washington DC / Susan Stamberg -- Brighton Beach, the music, and Mom / Neil Sedaka -- A blessing for Yakov Robinson / Alan Dershowitz -- A lost soul / Bernie Siegel -- My Alteh Zaideh / Monty Hall -- Seltzer / Anthony Weiner -- My favorite deli / Jay Winik -- Encouragement when you need it most / Bill Macy -- My son...not a doctor / Joel S. Kaplan -- My "Hasidic" father / Ruchama King Feuerman -- Aunts, uncles, and grandmothers / Carol Bruce -- Yiddishkeit / Iris Rainer Dart -- Brighton Beach / Gloria Dubov Miklowitz -- Bubbe's basement / Faye Moskowitz -- At Reuben's after the Shabbat service / Alan Oppenheimer -- Rocky Dale / Steve Bronstein -- Growing up Jewish in Chicago / Jan Schakowsky -- Diaspora in Miami Beach / Thane Rosenbaum -- First contact / Ed Asner -- Baseball was our religion / Murray Olderman -- Persecution / Neil Simon -- Dog / Gerald Stern -- What are you? / Carole L. Glickfeld -- Southern Jew / Lisa Solod -- Sheriff of the ship / Shecky Greene -- What's a good day? / Gene Saks -- A Jew in Texas / Fred Zeidman -- Riches from the Mameloshen / Larry Katzman -- On not having a Christmas tree / Susan Davis -- Not quite "normal" / Len Berman -- The Hebress of the class / Ruth Knafo Setton -- Growing up Jewish in Atlanta / Stuart Eizenstat -- Fighting on / Barney Rosenzweig -- In the Jewish chapel / Sheilah Kaufman -- Changing names / Martin Jay -- Opening a new door / Benjamin Cardin -- Chosen / Richard Marcus -- The permits / Steve Israel -- West Hartford / Jacob Neusner -- Becoming an OD / Jerome Slater -- Growing up with the Holocaust / Joel Siegel -- It helps to have Captain America on your side / Stan Lee -- Lighting candles / Melissa Manchester -- Bris / Dmitriy Salita -- Jewish Christmas / Barbara Rushkoff -- Matzo balls and me / Lesléa Newman -- Invitation to a wedding / Don Rickles -- The nuns' seder / Sally J. Priesand -- Christmas in Southern California / Leslie Epstein -- High holidays in the Granite State / Daniel Mariaschin -- Menorah / Ruth Laredo -- A stormy Bar Mitzvah / Larry Brown -- Never too late to become a Bar Mitzvah / Warner Wolf -- A Yom Kippur remembrance / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- The night my father invented champagne / Melville Shavelson -- In comedy there's hope / Jerry Stiller -- Four things / Jamie Lee Curtis -- An ethical choice / Daniel Schorr -- Heal the world and pursue justice / Peter Yarrow -- Humor, education, tradition, and Matzo ball soup / Larry King -- Hugs and kisses / Gene Wilder -- And/or / Edward Newman -- What keeps us going / Sid Caesar -- A worried Jew / Judd Hirsch -- My Mezuzah / David Copperfield -- Closer to God through music / Nathaniel Rosen -- Commandments / Barry Louis Polisar -- A Jew by politics and art / Nicholas Meyer -- A Jew by chance / David Margolis -- Lessons from the Yiddish Shule / Arthur Hiller -- Tikkun Olam / Judy Chicago -- Food and laughter / Bernie Brillstein -- Listen / Alan Shapiro -- The tree in the log / Dina Rosenfeld -- A passion for being Jewish / Susannah Heschel -- "What are we?" / Anne Bernays -- Every gesture, every decision I make / Uri Geller -- Alan King, comedy, tennis, and food / Rick Moranis -- Life according to Alan King / Barbara Walters -- Alan King eulogy / Billy Crystal. 
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