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Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero
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The Journal of American Culture
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June 1, 2008
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Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero Danny Fingeroth. Foreword by Stan Lee: New York: Continuum, 2007.
If we accept the Hebrew Bible as historical source, persons of Jewish identity have forever debated how that identity is or should be parsed into its components of ethnicity, nationality, and religion. In the past decade, writers have renewed this dialectic through a sharpening focus on Jewish ethnicity as a strand of superhero comics. Michael Chabon's novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) explored Jewish angst and feelings of impotence over Hitler's Europe. Gérard Jones's Men of Tomorrow (2005) roots the birth of the comics not only ...
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