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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Eddy Portnoy - What Yiddish Cartoons Reveal About Jewish Life in the Early 20th Century
Description: Dr. Eddy Portnoy, academic adviser for the Max Weinreich Center and exhibition curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (https://www.yivo.org/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture The "Distorted Mirror: What Yiddish Cartoons Reveal about Jewish Life in the early 20th Century" before an audience at Temple Beth Shalom (https://tbsaz.org/) in Sun City, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: For many centuries, Jews were the target of antisemitic visuals, images that framed them negatively as one-dimensional figures. It is only with the advent of the Yiddish press that Jewish artists began to develop a visual language with...