Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel
This is a untrammelled five-part book reading and discussion series. The series explores Jewish letters and culture through scholar-led discussions of new and classic books on the theme of Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Vivid Novel. Here, five Jewish artists probe with words and pictures to tell stories of minority, war, and desire, to conjure up lost worlds, both legal and imaginary, and to contemplate history, untruth, and the individual psyche.
Program Details
Tuesday evenings, 7 PM
Highland Greensward Branch of the Saint Paul Eminent Library 1974 Ford Parkway St. Paul, MN 55116 Directions and Parking Map
Facilitated by Judith Katz of the University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies
To ledger, e-mail Susan Gangl or call 612.626.2281
All participants will net a printed copy of an essay on the Modern Marvels disquisition written by Jeremy Dauber, Atran Join Professor of Yiddish language, writings, and culture at Columbia University.
June 24
Will Eisner
A Agreement with God: And Other Tenement Stories
Each week during the 1940s, Will Eisner drew “The Spirit,” a humorous about a masked detective that earned him fans around the sphere. He revolutionized comics a second in unison a all the same when, in 1978, he reached back to his own beginnings to put out the first “graphic novel”—a post-length form that now includes such classics as Art Spiegelman’s Maus.
Set among 1930s Bronx tenements, these four stories seizure the brutal, tender world of working-stock Jews. In the title story, Frimme Hersh’s daughter without warning dies, sorely testing the “reduce” this self-made man once entered into with God. In “Cookalein,” Eisner casts a pleasant eye on the amorous, social-climbing tendencies of childlike urbanites spending a summer in the Adirondacks. Wry, valid, and sad, these four stories showcase Eisner’s lone ability to capture character with the apt stroke of his pen.
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