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Jewish Graphic Novels: Topical Resources

This guide was created for Professor Judith Lewin

Jewish Women

What 'Broad City' Meant to Millennial Jewish Women
The Cut, March 28, 2019
Mom slapped me when I got my period
Kveller, June 13, 2017
Sara Bradley on Growing up Jewish in Kentucky and her 'Top Chef' - Winning Matzo Ball Soup
Jewish Journal, April 10, 2019
Israel deems women's ritual baths essential leaving some conflicted over virus risk.
Washington Post, April 28, 2020

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

The RESIST! Curriculum

Mental Illness, Trauma, Wellness

A Comic about Hard Work and Depression that Everyone Should Read
Upworthy, February 10, 2017
The Half-Life of Sexual Abuse in a Holocaust Survivor Family
Tablet Magazine, June 27, 2018
Happy New Year: Some Thoughts on Self-Care from Katie Green
Graphic Medicine, January 1, 2019

Religion & Culture

Translating the Ancient 'Ethics of Our Fathers' into a Graphic Novel
Forward, August 3, 2018
Coming Out as a Gay Orthodox Talmud Teacher
Forward
The Relics of Passover Past
Tablet Magazine
What's in a Name
Tablet Magazine - podcast
The Alter Bible
Tablet Magazine, January 30, 2019
“In the Torah, name changes signify moments of transformation;” in the lives of transgender Jews, they are just as powerful.
Forward, April 30, 2020

Survivors

On Board Flying Couch
My Jewish Detroit - website
Warsaw Ghetto to Have a Passover Seder
Forward

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory
Forward

Holocaust

Soon there will be no more survivors
Tablet Magazine
Freddy Hirsch's Lover
Tablet Magazine
The Holocaust Can't be the Essential Component of Jewish Identity - Here's Why
Forward, May 2, 2019
Should We Be Colorizing Photographs from Auschwitz
Forward, April 17, 2019
The Life of Gad Beck: Gay.Jewish. Nazi Fighter
The Nib, January 25, 2019
How comic books taught America about the Holocaust
New York Post, April 30, 2018

Oral Histories

Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews
Union College - Digital Works

Creators

Crossing Over
Amy Kurzweil in The Believer, August 1, 2018
Comics Roundup
Moment Magazine, August 3, 2016
The Book of the Dead
Tablet Magazine
An Interview with Lauren Weinstein
The Believer, January 31, 2019
"I Really Had to Reinvent Myself": An Interview with Julie Doucet
Los Angeles Review of Books, January 19, 2019
Who Gets Called an "Unfit" Mother?
The Nib, January 11, 2019
Jewish Creators, Resonant Themes: Comics as Midrash
Harvard Divinity Bulletin

Comics & Graphic Novels

The Comic Books on the Ultra Orthodox Bookshelf
The Librarians - blog
Get your First Look at 'Michael's Miscarriage."
Grok Nation, June 14, 2018
Battle at the Ballpark
Canada's History, April 17, 2019
With an artist's hands and word balloon
Jewish Standard, February 28, 2019
Eli Valley is the Angriest Political Cartoonist in America
Vulture, February 20, 2019
Why are there no good graphic novels about Jews and Israel
Mosaic, February 13, 2019
Move It
Tablet Magazine, January 3, 2012
Sylvia Plath's Last Plan
The New Yorker, December 6, 2018
Jewish Reclamation, Batwoman, and Bombshells
The Fandomentals, August 23, 2016

Associated Articles

Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past
CBC Radio, March 8, 2019
The Myth of the Jewish Nose
Tablet Magazine, February 8, 2019
What they talk about when they talk about intersectionality
Tablet Magazine, January 30, 2019