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Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form Hardcover – August 1, 2008

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Readers have long cherished the work of comic masters such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Art Spiegelman, all of whom happen to be Jewish. Few, however, are probably aware that the Jewish role in creating the American comic art form is no less significant than the Jewish influence on Hollywood filmmaking. Filled with the most stunning examples of this vital artistic tradition, Jews and American Comics tells us how the "people of the book" became the people of the comic book.

With three brief essays by Paul Buhle, the well-known historian of American Jewish life, Jews and American Comics offers readers a pictorial backstory tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early twentieth century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art, which has at last found its place in museums, in private collections, and on the bookshelves of both critics and millions of avid readers.

Featuring more than two hundred examples of the work of Jewish comic artists going back a century―much of which has been unavailable to the general public for decades―this extraordinary collection will be a major contribution to Jewish and American cultural history. Jews and American Comics is also a gorgeous package, sure to be treasured by comic art lovers and fans of Jewish culture―and destined to become the bar and bat mitzvah gift of the decade.
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Paul Buhle is a retired senior lecturer in the American studies department at Brown University. He is a co-author, with Dave Wagner, of Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies and the editor of Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation, and A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, all published by The New Press. Buhle is the founder of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and has continued actively producing books of comic art, including Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land and Bohemians: A Graphic History.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press; First Edition (August 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 198 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1595583319
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595583314
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.49 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.42 x 0.87 x 9.22 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Draws Excellent Parallels to Jewish Life
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2009
Given the lasting impact made by Jews throughout the history of comics, from Will Eisner to Art Spiegelman to Harvey Kurtzman to Sheldon Mayer, Jews and American Comics is a welcome collection and wonderful tribute--as well as a wealth of information.

The book traces the history of Jews in comics from early newspaper work at the turn of the 20th century (first in Yiddish papers and later in mainstream newspapers across the country). The exploration of the comic art form and its natural convergence with the Jewish American experience is a seeming oddity that makes perfect sense. How Jewish writers and illustrators used the format to convey the collective experiences of their people, as well as their current place in society, and used animals, superheroes, and everyday people to draw it all out is important and useful knowledge for students of history and social studies just as much as for fans of comics.

Brown University professor Paul Buhle, a historian of the Jewish culture and the author of a three-volume Jews in American Pop Culture series, continues his exploration of how Jewish culture has become embedded in works of art, analyzing not only its influences but also the influences it in turn has had on later works. Buhle's essays are the framework for the book, which also collects hundreds of works from artists over the past century, and traces the birth of this distinct art form and parallels it with the development of the Yiddish language.

The juxtaposition of comics images on the pages ranges throughout the past century and draws excellent parallels to Jewish life, bringing in history, philosophy, economic issues, prejudices, and more to develop a cohesive theme of art reflecting Jewish life. The book includes excerpts of works from so many people, well-known and little-known, such as Milton Caniff, Kim Deitch, Will Elder, Justin Green, Jules Feiffer, and so many more. Spanning such a broad range of talents further illustrates Buhle's points in a great way.

-- John Hogan
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Dr. Halle
3.0 out of 5 stars Graphics or commentary?
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2009
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I had heard an interview by the author, Buhle, and I was delighted to receive this book. Yet, I found it somewhat disppointing, in that I had expected trenchant commentary in a volume JAM-PACKED with graphics. There are some graphic gems, but too few, and some of the examples are of recent vintage, not classics. Plus, the narrative was on the plodding, cumbersome side.

From reviews, it appears that another book, "From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books," might be more what I had in mind.
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Mike
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard Read. Quit midway through.
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2008
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I bought this book on the suggestion of Amazon when I sought to buy Krakow to Krypton. From the beginning, the author's style of writing was very hard for me to follow let alone enjoy. I don't think it was too technical, but seemed very 'high brow' with many citations noted. It was a drudgery to read. I enjoyed most of the comic strip examples until the end with all the Anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish comics by ultra liberal, left wing Jewish artists. Unfortunately, I do not recommend.
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Angus T. Cat
3.0 out of 5 stars Promising, Worthwhile guide, but could be more comprehensive
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2012
I looked forward to reading Paul Buhle's Jews and American Comics. Ultimately, I found it disappointing. The book is well researched and contains an impressive collection of Yiddish cartoons, some by artists I didn't know before. But overall the work is weakened by Buhle's turgid prose style. I found his essays hard to follow and confusing in places: the chapter on comic strips gave me the impression Milton Caniff was Jewish (a look on the internet confirmed that Caniff wasn't Jewish; he was Catholic). Buhle speeds through the birth of the comic book and hardly considers that most of the creators of superheroes were Jewish. He discusses Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster and Joe Simon briefly but spends little time on Bob Kane and doesn't mention Gil Kane, Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, Julius Schwartz, Joe Kubert, Mort Weisinger, Robert Kanigher, and many other great comic artists, writers, and editors who were Jewish. Buhle's account of the history of EC comics and the impact of Fredrick Wertham on the comics industry in the 1950s is imprecise and unclear. I found it puzzling that Buhle discusses Mad comics intensively but doesn't allude to Harvey Kurtzman's use of Yiddish in its take offs of American popular culture icons, and notes Mad's huge influence on its readers, especially the readers who became underground cartoonists in the 60s and 70s, but says little about Mad after it became a magazine in 1955. He misses opportunities to consider Mad magazine's satirical examination of American Jewish life in its parodies of "Fiddler on the Roof" and features such as its primer about Judaism in the U.S. Likewise, he alludes to EC's "preachy" social message stories but doesn't mention EC stories in which characters who were Anti Semitic discovered their origins were actually Jewish. The illustrations from comics and comix artists are worth the price of the book. Unfortunately many of them are less powerful than they could be by not being reproduced in full: the volume includes only two pages of Trina's Robbins "Triangle Fire" and one page of Bernard Krigstein's "Master Race". One of the highlights of the comics is Jeffrey Lewis' "Ghost Stories" which says more about Jews in American comics, the history of American comics, and the current state of comics in America than Buhle's essays do. "Jews and American Comics" is worth reading, but the abstruse essays and haphazard representation of the comics diminish the work's consideration of the history of comics and Jews representing themselves and their viewpoints of American life in popular culture.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great history plus plenty of example cartoon
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2021
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This book is a keeper for anyone interest in a history of Jewish cartoonists in America. It is a large book. Narratives are interspersed with examples. The author knows his stuff.
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