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NON-FICTION / GRAPHIC ART Fantastic flashback
ORIGINAL ARTWORK and stories by Jack Kir- by (born Jacob Kurtzberg) and Stan Lee (born Stanley Lieber)—two of the great Jewish com- ics creators, who launched Fantastic Four in
1961—are featured in this re- print. It’s widely thought that Kirby put some of his own sto- ry into that of The Thing (a.k.a. Ben Grimm). Marvel Comics confirmed Grimm is Jewish in a 2002 story in which The
THE ART OF FANTASTIC FOUR Jack Kirby and Stan Lee Dark Horse Books September 23
NON-FICTION / RELIGION Queering the Jewish
Thing returns to Yancy Street, his old stomping grounds, based on Delancey Street in Manhat- tan’s Lower East Side, where the character (and Kirby) grew up. Recently, the real-life corner of Delancey and Essex streets was renamed Yan- cy Street/Jack Kirby Way. Jonathan Rothman
canon SOURCES OF PRIDE: JEWISH VIEWS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY Abby Chava Stein Ben Yehuda Press September 2
FOR THE UNINITIATED, Abby Stein is a rabbi, activist, and author of the 2019 bestselling memoir Becoming Eve: My Journey From Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi To Trans- gender Woman. Born in the strictly religious, largely Yiddish-speaking Hasidic enclave of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Stein is a tenth-generation descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. She spent the first 18 years of her life pickled in the rich culture, education system, and rituals of Hasidic life, and, as
the first-born scion of a dynastic rabbinic family, would have been poised to be a future leader of that community. That very particular identity—as someone with both a deep, embodied knowledge of life in the Hasidic world, and of life as a transgender woman—gives Stein a rare perspective on the material. Zachary Kauffman
NON-FICTION / BIOGRAPHY Twists of faith
ROSENBAUM began his career as a Village Voice journalist and has been covering and interviewing Dylan for decades. Here, he dives into not only the catalogue but also the context of the artist’s life in which the music was created, including Dylan’s per- egrinations into Christianity and return to a form of Judaism. The detailed biography delves all the way back to events like Dylan’s father bringing a rabbi to rural Minnesota to serve as his son’s bar mitzvah tu- tor. The resulting analysis of the songs and their de- tailed backstories makes this one for the mega-fans and the Dylan-curious alike. Jonathan Rothman
BOB DYLAN: THINGS HAVE CHANGED Ron Rosenbaum Melville House October 21
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