Jews, Comics and the City

Three cartoonists explain how their family histories, urban milieus and personal experiences have influenced their representation of Jewish life. Speakers include Liana Finck, author of A Bintel Brief, an illustrated love letter to turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants; Miriam Katin, author of Letting It Go, the graphic memoir of a Holocaust survivor visiting Berlin; and Eli Valley, artist in residence at the Forward, the progressive Jewish-American national newspaper founded in 1897.