A new graphic memoir recalls the story of a rabbi who traveled to the Soviet Union in 1965 to investigate the country’s treatment of Jews, and ended up helping one family escape
In his new book, ‘Smahtguy,’ cartoonist Eric Orner focuses on his former boss’s life on and off Capitol Hill
Israel’s leading graphic novelist excavates the conflict-ridden landscape of her country, with a hat tip to Indiana Jones
A new graphic novel about the Iraqi Jewish experience
‘White Bird,’ a graphic novel for kids, stresses the importance of political resistance—then and now
An unrealized surrealist film project known as ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ is rendered in comix, the latest of a century of Talmudic riffs on the disruptive vaudevillian outsiders
Sarah Boxer’s whimsical cartoon novel puts a bestiary of human frailty on the psychoanalytic couch
Michael Kupperman’s revealing graphic novel—or comic, depending—brings to life a repressed, brainy postwar American Jewishness that whiz kids like the Oppenheimer brothers can relate to
The celebrated cartoonist hid his greatest Jewish reference in plain sight
In an excerpt from the graphic novel ‘Victory Parade,’ a Jewish American soldier named Sam Arensberg helps liberate the concentration camp—but the horrors he witnesses haunt his dreams
Julia Alekseyeva’s moving tale of her great-grandmother, a Russian refugee, and the perils and promises of idealism
Jessica Deutsch’s illustrated Pirkei Avot—a graphic novel of the Mishnaic compilation—provides a gorgeous introduction to one of Judaism’s key texts
Pioneering Jewish comic artist credited with inventing the graphic novel
New publications from Rutu Modan and Michel Kichka offer bittersweet depictions of the complicated history of 20th-century Jews
New graphic novels by Harvey Pekar and Guy Delisle illustrate different takes on the Israeli-Palestinian mess
Five Books, holiday edition: Nine hardbacks—including Philip Schultz’s memoir, a history of the orgasm, and Alfred Kazin’s journals—for the readers on your list
On the 40th anniversary of the historic truce negotiated by a South Bronx gang leader, a work-in-progress graphic novel traces the roots of hip-hop
Esther marries indie rock royalty
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