Jew Talkin' To Me? with Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler
03/25/22 • 55 min
Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is author Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, creator of A Series Of Unfortunate Events which has sold over 60 million copies and been adapted for both the big and small screen! His newest book, Poison For Breakfast, is out now.
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Twitter: @lemonysnicket @DanielHandler
Instagram: @authordanielhhandler
Website: www.danielhandler.com
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and, most recently, Bottle Grove.
As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. He's also written some brilliant Jewish themed stories, including The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (a perfect Hanukkah gift) and Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid (why not buy it for someone as a Passover treat?). Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, is out now!
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is author Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, creator of A Series Of Unfortunate Events which has sold over 60 million copies and been adapted for both the big and small screen! His newest book, Poison For Breakfast, is out now.
Follow him on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.
Facebook: @JewTalkin
Twitter: @JewTalkin
Instagram: @JewTalkin
Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released every Friday morning, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on... it’s what your mother would want!
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Twitter: @lemonysnicket @DanielHandler
Instagram: @authordanielhhandler
Website: www.danielhandler.com
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and, most recently, Bottle Grove.
As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. He's also written some brilliant Jewish themed stories, including The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (a perfect Hanukkah gift) and Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid (why not buy it for someone as a Passover treat?). Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, is out now!
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jew Talkin' To Me? with YidLife Crisis (Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman)
Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman best known as Leizer and Chaimie from the cult hit web series Yidlife Crisis.
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Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released every Friday morning, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on... it’s what your mother would want!
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Yidlife Crisis
Twitter: @YidLifeCrisis
Instagram: @yidlifecrisis
Website: www.yidlifecrisis.com
Created by Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman, YidLife Crisis is the world’s first 18 and over/Chai+ Yiddish web series. It’s won numerous awards and been described* as “One of the Top 1000 Things to Happen to the Yiddish Language in the Last 1000 Years”. (*By Eli and Jamie)
They will be appearing at JW3 in London as part of “Oy Canada: A Celebration of Canadian Jews” on 1st July 2021, here is the link https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/oy-canada-celebration-canadian-jews
Wanting to pay homage to the yiddishkayt in their upbringing and the Jewish comedic lens on life with which they were raised, Eli and Jamie developed the YidLife Crisis web series and cultural brand. They describe YidLife Crisis as a love letter about modern Jewish identity, set mostly in Yiddish, making Jewish identity inclusive to all through the ice-breaking power of comedy. What started as a passion project turned into a hit with over 3,000,000 video views and 30,000 subscribers, global press, awards and accolades, the collaboration of talent such as Mayim Bialik and Howie Mandel, and a chance to work with various organizations from Jewish community centers through academic institutions through comedy festivals.
Jamie Elman
Twitter: @JamieElman
Jamie has appeared on many of television's most acclaimed series including Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Without A Trace, CSI: NY, The Closer and The Young and the Restless. He also played Luke, the resident piano-playing record store guy and boyfriend, for three seasons on NBC's award winning and critically lauded drama American Dreams. His breakout role was Cody on the FOX/YTV hit teen sitcom Student Bodies. Jamie has starred in "California Dreamin'" (Grand Prix, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival), "When Nietzsche Wept", "Shattered Glass", "The Chicago 8", "Saving Lincoln", and "Random Encounters". He has done extensive voice work for video games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and animated films including Disney's Wreck-It Ralph and the blockbuster Frozen. He also wrote and starred in the web series "crazy/sexy/awkward," produced by Howie Mandel, and "YidLife Crisis," the world's first 18+ Yiddish comedy series. He recently appeared in the finale of Canadian series "Bomb Girls." Jamie is also an accomplished blues and jazz pianist and singer.
Eli Batalion
Twitter: @EliBatalion
Instagram: @elibatalion
Eli Batalion is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage who has taken his love of the arts into the realm of social entrepreneurship. Hei began his career in musical theatre with the award-winning internationally touring play "JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical." He and partner Jerome Sable evolved their work to the screen with the musical horror comedy short "The Legend of Beaver Dam" selected to TIFF, Sundance, Berlinale and over 75 global film festivals. From there, they evolved to feature horror musical comedy Stage Fright featuring Minne Driver and Meat Loaf. "YidLife Crisis," Eli's project done with partner Jamie Elman, uses the disarming power...
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Holocaust survivor/TikTok phenomenon Gidon Lev, and his partner author and editor Julie Gray
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Twitter: @GidonLev
Tiktok: @thetrueadventures
Instagram: @thetrueadventures
Website: www.thetrueadventures.com
Gidon Lev and his life partner Julie Gray are a Tiktok phenomenon, sharing a combination of Holocaust education, opinion on contemporary issues and performing all of the trends! Julie has co-written Gidon’s memoir “The True Adventures of Gidon Lev. Rascal. Holocaust Survivor. Optimist” and they have a fantastic podcast too which brings the book to life with additional material, music and sound. Visit their website https://www.thetrueadventures.com/ for more information.
Gidon, (formerly Peter Wolfgang Löw) was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935. In 1941, Gidon and his mother and father were taken to the Theresienstadt (or Terezin) concentration camp, which was located about 50 kilometers north of Prague. Of the 15,000 children in Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. Gidon Lev is one of those children. He wound up in Canada, where he became involved with the Zionist youth organization HaShomer HaTzair and in 1959, Gidon came to Israel to fulfill his dream. Gidon is now 86 years old and delivers flowers, as well as sharing on Tiktok daily!
Julie Gray was born in 1964 in the San Joaquin Valley in California. A longtime Huffington Post contributor, Julie has been published in the Sanskrit Literary Journal, Moment Magazine, The Times of Israel, MovieMaker Magazine, Script Magazine, and Hip Mama. Her essay "The Freaking Autumn of My Life" was included in the anthology "Aging: An Apprenticeship." A veteran essayist and editor, Julie moved to Israel in 2012 and is working on her memoir "They Do Things Differently Here."
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