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Vincent Brook was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley and has lived in Silver Lake for more than thirty years. He teaches at USC, UCLA, Cal State LA, and Pierce College, and has authored or edited the following books: Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom (2003); You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture (2006, editor); and Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (2009). A B O U T T H E AU T H O R ...

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