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Yorkville Swastika
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The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…

Contributor:

Vivian Cherry

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Date:

1948

Subjects:

Photography, Children, Antisemitism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Political Culture
Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.
American Splendor
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“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…

Contributor:

Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb

Places:

Cleveland Heights, United States of America

Date:

1978

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Gender, Economic life, Comics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Firsthand Accounts
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.