Realizing the untapped potential of Jewish mythology and folklore in pop culture, writer Jeff Marvin decided to create an ...
This month’s column features Jewish folklore and books about Jewish characters. Cinderella fans might enjoy Nina Jaffe’s “The Way Meat Loves Salt” and Erica Silverman’s “Raisel’s Riddle.” Like “The ...
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Inside the Jewish folklore that inspired Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride as movie celebrates 20th anniversary
Like the Twilight franchise, Tim Burton's classic animated horror film the Corpse Bride is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. And as the horror movie has became a Halloween staple that many ...
A rusted bolt seems to sit on a shelf next to a cherry-red, toy plastic gas pump. Here a sea shell hangs near a metal ruler. There a worn pair of blue jeans appears to hang on the wall next to faded ...
When Ben and Max Berkowitz noticed a troubling trend in comic book movies, they decided they had to do something about it. “Characters who identified as Jewish on the page, as soon as they made the ...
Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.” (JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American ...
“To be in a space where everyone’s a Jewish creator, and is channeling their Judaism into art and comics and telling stories, is everything,” said Jewish cartoonist Danielle Brody. (New York Jewish ...
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