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Melody Barron
Jewish heritage, culture, and history are Melody's bread and butter, and through that lens, she tackles queer and feminist theory, not to mention the worlds of fantasy and superheroines. In her spare time she's probably doing yoga in Yiddish.
Judaism
Regina Jonas, the first ordained woman Rabbi, writes to Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher and scholar of Hasidic lore, asking for guidance during the dark times of Berlin in 1938.
Diaspora
The very public Jewish roots of Captain America, the first superhero to punch Hitler in the face!
The famed escape artist, illusionist, and séance buster, was also intensely proud of his Judaism.
In the late 1870s an emissary traveled across the United States, from sea to shiny sea, from one Jewish community to another, to collect charity fellow Jews in the Land of Israel
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