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 title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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New York :
Free Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.