Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.

“Chickensouperman” from L’il Abner

L’il Abner, set in the fictional town of Dogpatch in Kentucky, presented a stereotyped view of the U.S. South. But its trenchant satire targeted political and social issues, and popular culture. Here…

“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)

Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…

Drawing of two figures holding guns, next to a snake, a baby in a crib, and a man with an axe in his head.

Zoo Eretz Zoo

God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…

Drawing of six figures sitting at the far side of a set table and a peacock on the near side.

Peacock Thanksgiving

An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…

Comic book page with title across the top over bird's-eye view of city streets, and English text below about summer in tenements.

Cookalein

“Cookalein” is a story from Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The “cookalein” (or kuchalein, “cook for yourself”) was a popular and affordable type of…

Comic book page split into six panels featuring a man facing the viewer in several panels and the rest with him in line at the supermarket, and English text describing waiting behind Jewish ladies at the supermarket.

American Splendor

“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…

Drawing of smiling woman with high heels and dress, one hand on her head and one hand holding her skirt away from her bare legs.

Bette Midler

Comic book page split into 8 sections depicting mice in clothes talking, and mice in suits in a train station with text bubbles about a letter from a nephew.

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Drawing of cartoonish head with pharoanic headdress standing on chariot.

Yitzhak Shamir

In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime…

Drawing of man wearing hat with swatsika shooting a gun at a figure who is mostly obscured behind a wall, with crashed plane and ruins in background.

American Pop

Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop is an animated musical that chronicles the history of American popular music through the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians. To…

The Minsk Theory of Krypton: Jerry Siegel (1914-1996)

“Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…Superman!” Oh, he was a giant back then. And he may have been a touch innocent, even primitive, but he was unique. One of a kind. And he was like an…

English text about Jewish history and pagan gods interspersed with images of a crowd of people on the horizon, someone chiseling an animal-head sculpture, and silhouetted figures talking.

The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure

From The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure, a comic strip history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the end of the twentieth century.