This volume brings together 18 essays--along with original works of comic art between sections--by history, English, literature, and other scholars, as well as writers, from North America. They
examine Jewish comics and graphic novels by Will Eisner, Leela Corman, J.T. Waldman, Joann Sfar, Jules Feiffer, Howard Chaykin, Will Elder, Joe Kubert, Rutu Modan, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman,
Sarah Glidden, Joe Sacco, and others. They consider issues related to Jewish identity and culture and the comics’ dialogue with the Old World, religious tradition, the Holocaust and trauma,
cultural legends, representations of Israel, historical events, urban spaces, sexuality, popular genres, assimilation, and the teaching of these topics, as well as the use of the golem and
Jewish giants. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
