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‘Maus’ author to Federation forum: Parental control, whitewashing led to book ban

Mike WagenheimFebruary 8, 2022

The Pulitzer-prize winning author says his Holocaust memoir’s raw telling, seen by a Tennessee school board as objectionable, was crucial to his story’s authenticity and believability.

Cartoonist, editor and author Art Spiegelman speaks at a Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga-sponsored online event about a Tennessee school-board book ban on Feb. 7, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

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Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’

February 2, 2022

“It’s not for third-graders. This is for eighth-grade minds who’ve already had Holocaust education beginning in fifth grade—in the state of Tennessee, that’s when we begin,” said Michael Dzik of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga.

A display of the book “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. Source: Flickr/ActuaLitté.

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Yad Vashem chairman invites Whoopi Goldberg to visit Holocaust museum

February 1, 2022

Dani Dayan welcomed the talk-show host’s “important” apology, though said her remarks were evidence of a “fundamental misunderstanding” regarding the nature of anti-Semitism.

Whoopi Goldberg. Credit: Eugene Parciasepe/Shutterstock.

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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 31, 2022

Don’t confuse book-banning with opposition to woke indoctrination

A Tennessee school board’s taking “Maus” from classrooms made it the target of national scorn. But attempts to link their foolish decision to opposition to critical race theory are misleading.

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Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’

January 28, 2022

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Art Spiegelman’s parents, who lived in Poland in the 1940s, and their time in Auschwitz.

Art Spiegelman. Source: Screenshot.

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