Michah Gottlieb

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Richard Kreitner |Akiva Schick |Arie Kaplan |Michah Gottlieb

University of South Carolina Press 288 pp., $26.99 In 2016, Jason K. Friedman, a fiction writer from Savannah, Georgia, then living in San Francisco, decided to buy an apartment in an old townhouse in the historic district of his native city. He was drawn in by the name given for the building—the Solomon Cohen townhouse. Not many of the celebrated historic homes of Savannah carry Jewish names.

Aug 3, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Benjamin Weiner |Akiva Schick |Michah Gottlieb

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Simon Emanuel Walt Disney Pictures, 154 minutes In 1981, a creative team of three and a half Jews and the maker of Star Wars rendered one of the top action masterpieces in American cinema. Conceived in homage to old B-movie serials, Raiders of the Lost Ark raised this campy genre to sublime new heights.