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In fairy tales, bears sit at tables, children munch on candy houses and women can live in their shoes.

"from krakow to krypton" for j. the jewish news weekly

Comic relief: ‘From Krakow to Krypton’ throws Jewish cartoonists into spotlight

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a book about Jews and comic books! And it is, admittedly, much more exciting than I thought it could be. While comic books themselves still give me a heart-palpitating rush, I worried that dissecting their creation and connections to Judaism would ruin their simple, aesthetic fun.

trail of our vinyl for j. the jewish news weekly

Recorded history: Book examines American Jewish experience through album covers
What can a 1957 Mickey Katz album, with the comedian posing on the cover as a kosher butcher, tell us about the American Jewish experience?