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Tag: Graphic Memoir

0 Art Holocaust

How MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist

PJ Grisar in Forward · 18 Feb

Art Spiegelman's journey as an artist, particularly illustrated through the new documentary 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse,' embodies a complex interplay of inherited trauma, anti-authoritarianism, and innovative artistry.

0 Literature History

My grandmother’s handmade life

Jewish Chronicle · 28 Aug 2024

Miriam Gold, an artist and teacher, explores her grandmother Dr. Elena Zadik's life in a graphic memoir, "Elena: A Hand Made Life."

0 Holocaust Art

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

Nora Berman in Forward · 15 Aug 2024

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.

0 History Literature

Replaying the Survival Game

Raz Greenberg in Tablet · 22 May 2024

"Replay: Past and Present" discusses Jordan Mechner's works, focusing on his 1997 game The Last Express featuring a Jewish character, Anna, and his graphic memoir Replay.

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Baby, It’s Tevet Outside: Ep. 255

Unorthodox · 24 Dec 2020

In this episode of Unorthodox, the hosts discuss the overlapping of Christmas and the minor Jewish fast day of the 10th of Tevet in 2020.