I just read in Ha’aretz that Israeli artist/writer Rutu Modan’s “Exit Wounds,” has won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best graphic novel, apparently the highest award a graphic novel can receive in the US.
I’d say it’s a richly deserved honor. It’s a wonderfully drawn and multi-layered book; the plot focuses on a young [...]
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Big Honors For “Exit Wounds”
Posted in Art, Books, Books You Should Read, Israel, Literature on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tilting at Windmills?
Posted in Judaism, Literature, Religion, Sephardic Judaism on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished reading a fascinating article in the European Jewish Press that spotlighted a Jewish historian’s theory that the legendary Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes belonged to a family of conversos - Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity or face expulsion from Spain after 1492.
Historian Abraham Haim, an expert on Sephardic [...]
