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Eric Godal: A Cartoonist’s Fight for Human Rights
The incredible but true story of an acclaimed German Jewish political cartoonist who escaped from the Gestapo and fled to the United States, where he created biting editorial cartoons for the American press about the plight of the Jews in Hitler Europe.

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For adult and college-age audiences

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The Voyage of the St. Louis, Through Art, Drama, and Literature
The infamous “voyage of the doomed” is one of the best-known illustrations of the abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust. This presentation explores how that tragedy has been interpreted by cartoonists and other artists, playwrights, and film directors.

Audience

For adult and college-age audiences

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Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry
The little-known story of how the American Jewish Committee secretly hired cartoonists and comic book artists to create political cartoons, posters, and other images to combat bigotry in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Based on my forthcoming book, of the same title, from Dark Horse.

Audience

For adult and college-age audiences