Past Is Future: Gadi Pollack’s Haredi Comics
The 2000s have seen numerous comics conquer the devout Haredi book market in the usa as well as in Israel, sparking a boom which still remains largely unnoticed. The work of Gadi Pollack stands out due to its graphic quality and richness in technique and ideas. “His comics can be classified as a mod...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2016
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European journal of jewish studies
Jahr: 2016, Band: 10, Heft: 1, Seiten: 108-147 |
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book market
comic art
art
children’s literature
Ultra-orthodox Judaism
Haredim
Hassidism
moral literature
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| Zusammenfassung: | The 2000s have seen numerous comics conquer the devout Haredi book market in the usa as well as in Israel, sparking a boom which still remains largely unnoticed. The work of Gadi Pollack stands out due to its graphic quality and richness in technique and ideas. “His comics can be classified as a modern form of Musar literature, which is not only for ‘children’.” His comics will thus serve as a case study for the medium; a medium that is also the subject of Judaistic cultural studies and examined here for the very first time. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Enthält: | In: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-12341288 |