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SUMMARY:The Jewish History of Comic Book Superheroes
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nDo you know the secret Jewish history of comic books? Have you heard the Jewish stories behind iconic characters such as Superman and Spider-Man? And how comic books have portrayed the Holocaust? Tune into this free program to find out. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, June 8 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n  \n \nMark S. Zaid\, left\, is a Washington\, D.C. based attorney who is repeatedly named a “Best Lawyer” in Washingtonian Magazine. He is also an avid comic book collector and wrote the preface to the graphic novel Whistleblowers. In 2017\, he co-founded a non-profit law firm that provides pro bono legal representation to whistleblowers\, particularly in the national security arena. He is the grandson of the late Rabbi David Max Eichhorn\, who with U.S. forces liberated Dachau Concentration Camp\, and he co-edited the book The GI’s Rabbi: World War Two Letters of Rabbi David Max Eichhorn (Univ. Press Kansas\, 2004). \n \nDanny Fingeroth\, right\, is a cultural historian\, specializing in history at the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. His books include Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews\, Comics\, and the Creation of the Superhero. His most recent book is Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin\, which takes us through Ruby’s bizarre life leading up to and beyond that fateful weekend in 1963 when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. Fingeroth has served as an executive editor and writer at Marvel and other media companies and has spoken on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered. \n \nDr. Rafael Medoff\, left\, is the founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and Jewish history\, including the nonfiction graphic novel Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America (with Dean Motter) and Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry (with Craig Yoe). He has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and co-created animated shorts about the Holocaust\, with Stan Lee and Neal Adams\, for Disney. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
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