Ben Katchor, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a cartoonist. Best known for his strip and radio drama series based on the character Julius Knipl, Katchor teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works appear in the Forward and the New Yorker. Katchor has received the Isaac Bashevis Singer Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur fellowship.
The next day Marcel Schwartz registered at the labor exchange. [ . . . ]
Ten days later he heard clearly and explicitly: Marcel Schwartz! With trembling hands, he took his work notice, went home to…
The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…
I was out of the cavern no more than a minute, taking a last look around the square at the minarets, the moon, the domes, the Wall, when someone was shouting at me, “It’s you!”
Standing in my path was…