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Dust cover textile artwork by Melanie Siegel.
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The Introduction makes reference to Jewish War Heroes, Captain Canuck, "Miracle at 22,300 Miles"(in Justice League of America #188), "Zog Nit Keyn Mol"(in Wimmen's Comix #10), and Yiddishkeit.
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This story was adapted from a folk tale told by Peninnah Schram.
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The story was adapted from the book The Maggid Speaks : A Collection of Rabbi Shalom Schwardron's Best Stories by Paysach Krohen (Mesorah Publications, 1987).
Cud Comics #4 published June 1996 Notes:
The story is adapted from Avodah Zarah 17A. Rabbi Richard Hirsch assisted with this adaptation.
Wimmen's Comix #10 published October 1985 Notes:
Adapted from The Partisans Song, words by Hirsh Glik (1922-1944), poet of the Warsaw Ghetto. The captions are written in both transliterated Yiddish and English.
Vampire Tales #4 published April 1974
R. Crumb's Kafka #[nn] published November 2004
Minor Miracles #[nn] published December 2000
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This story is based upon an anecdote told in chapter 38 of the 17th century book Tzemach Tzadik by Rabbi Yehuda Arie Leone di Modena.
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The first panel identifies the story as "A Jewish Folk Tale" and contains the logo used for the Dry Bones comic strip.
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This Yiddish story was written by I.L. Peretz and translated into English by Esther Hautzig. Within the text, Bontsha is compared to Job and this story has often been compared to the Biblical Job tale.
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The story was written by Eli Eshed who based it on the work of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo.
Strange Tales #177 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1974 Notes:
This story is adapted from an 18th century Yiddish legend, as retold by Gershom Scholem is his book The Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (NY, 1965).
Drawn & Quarterly #3 published May 2000
Doom Patrol #85 published December 1994
The Challenger #3 published July 1946
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The second panel shows the reader that this story appeared in the book Treasury of Jewish Folk Tales by Nathan Ausubel.
Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies #[nn] published January 2000 Notes:
The story is subtitled "A Hasidic Parable".
American Splendor #15 published January 1990 Notes:
The full names in the credits are Harvey "Ahmayid" Pekar and Carole "Pączki" Sobocinski. The two main characters are drawn in the style of the Jewish mouse and Polish pig found in the pages of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus. Herschel is Harvey Pekar's Yiddish name and "schnorrer" is the Yiddish word for someone who sponges off of other people. The final panel shows Herschel in a t-shirt that reads "On strike against NBC" (the custom-made t-shirt which Pekar infamously wore on David Letterman's show).
Wimmen's Comix #8 published March 1983 Notes:
Adapted from a Yiddish song with lyrics by Morris Rosenfeld. The captions contain both English and transliterated Yiddish.
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This story is an adaptation of the song "My Zayde" by Moishe Yess.
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