Ep. 105: From Soaps to Historical Fiction – with novelist Alina Adams
Jun 16, 2025•29 min•Ep. 105
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Episode description
Alina Adams is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest historical novel, Go On Pretending, explores three generations of Jewish women battling the tides of history from segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR to the rise of revolutionary Rojava.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Alina’s website
https://alinaadams.com/
Go On Pretending
https://www.historythroughfiction.com/go-on-pretending
Alina’s Substack
https://alinaa.substack.com/
Amusing Jews Merch Store
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Alina’s website
https://alinaadams.com/
Go On Pretending
https://www.historythroughfiction.com/go-on-pretending
Alina’s Substack
https://alinaa.substack.com/
Amusing Jews Merch Store
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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