Foreword: Comix, Judaism, and Me | |
Introduction | |
The Jewish. American Experience | |
Contemporary American Jewish Comic Books: Abject Pasts, Heroic Futures | p. 3 |
Comic Books, Tragic Stories: Will Eisner's American Jewish History | p. 22 |
"Wanna watch the grown-ups doin' dirty things?": Jewish Sexuality and the Early Graphic Novel | p. 43 |
"Give 'em another circumcision": Jewish Masculinities in The Golem's Mighty Swing | p. 64 |
The Holocaust across Borders | |
A Tale of Two Mice: Graphic Representations of the Jew in Holocaust Narrative | p. 85 |
"When time stands still": Traumatic Immediacy and Narrative Organization in Art Spiegelman's Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers | p. 94 |
The Holocaust without Ink: Absent Memory and Atrocity in Joe Kubert's Graphic Novel Yossel: April 19, 1943 | p. 111 |
Releasing the Grip of the Ghostly: Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | p. 129 |
Witness, Trauma, and Remembrance: Holocaust Representation and X-Men Comics | p. 144 |
The Graphic Novel outside the United States | |
Imperfect Masters: Rabbinic Authority in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat | p. 163 |
Borderlands: Places, Spaces, and Jewish Identity in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat and Klezmer | p. 181 |
From Darkness into Light: Reframing Notions of Self and Other in Contemporary Israeli Graphic Narratives | p. 198 |
Ben Gurion's Golem and Jewish Lesbians: Subverting Hegemonic History in Two Israeli Graphic Novels | p. 214 |
Jewish Graphic Novelists in Their Own Words and Pictures | |
A Conversation with Miriam Katin | p. 237 |
A Conversation with Miriam Libicki | p. 244 |
Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy! | p. 253 |
Further Reading | p. 275 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 279 |
Index | p. 283 |
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