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'I'd tell myself I could absorb into white America': Probing assimilation and the Holocaust, in a graphic memoir

JL;DR SUMMARY In the graphic memoir "Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz" by Ari Richter, the author explores his Jewish identity, growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, and grappling with assimilation in America. 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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