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How Superman, Captain America and a little-known Hollywood star fought the Nazis

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the intersection of Jewish culture with the comic book industry, as highlighted by the exhibit JewCE: The Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comics Experience at the Center for Jewish History. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustFascismExhibitResistanceStan LeeSupermanJewish CreatorsJewish ComicsCaptain AmericaLily Rene

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New York City, New York, United States
"Readers of the Warheit would be familiar with Gimpl Beynish der Shadkhn, Samuel Zagats daily comic strip about the travails of an old world matchmaker plying his trade in New York City, while readers of The Forverts would be well acquainted with the single panel drawings by the cartoonist Zuni Maud."
Israel
"Schwartz, who learned English from comic books while growing up in Israel, explained how many of these early superheroes were also semi-autobiographical avatars for their creators."
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
"Seorita Rio, according to Schwartz, has a slightly different backstory. First appearing in June 1942, Rio was a Latina Hollywood starlet who, as revenge for her fiancs death in Pearl Harbor, faked her own suicide to become a U.S. spy against the Axis, fighting in Latin America."

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