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Professor of Germanic Studies at UVic; community-engaged Holocaust education | human rights studies | visual storytelling | arts-based action research | care ethics | visualnarratives.org | Image credit: Barbara Yelin (Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory)
Herzliche Glückwünsche, liebe Barbara! Such wonderful news! Huge congratulations to Barbara Yelin on her appointment as the Leibinger Professor for Comics Studies at Merz Akademie Stuttgart! This position is the first explicitly designated professorship for comics studies in Germany.
SAVE THE DATE: Please join us on April 26th and 27th for "What is Testimony For?," a two-day conference at Yale University featuring artists and scholars discussing the use of testimony from the Holocaust and other mass atrocities as a source for the visual arts, literature, and new media.
Vor zehn Jahren schmückte die Serie „Über Unterwegs“ der jetzt zur Comic-Professorin berufenen Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin (www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...) die Sonntagsseiten im @tagesspiegel.de
Hier gibt es eine Auswahl: www.barbarayelin.de/kurzcomics#/...
Something important that many people probably don’t know: in the Detroit area the Jewish community & the various Arab communities have worked _really hard_ for decades to build understanding, trust, & goodwill. It’s sometimes been very difficult, but they’ve mostly succeeded
For two decades, we were told the humanities are moribund and we only need STEM, and now we're reached a point where the biggest innovations in STEM are raising fundamentally humanist questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require philosophy, art, history, and religion to answer.
anyway tell everyone to buy Heavyweight so I can prove to my mother I haven’t ruined my own life by being a cartoonist.
Emmie Arbel nació en Holanda en 1937 y con apenas cinco años fue deportada a un campo de concentración. Sus abuelos y sus padres murieron. Ella sobrevivió.
Recomendamos este cómic de Barbara Yelin sobre el poder y la responsabilidad de la memoria: loslibrerosdebenedetti.blogspot.com/2026/02/emmi...
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
it’s publication day for Anand Gopal’s extraordinarily deeply reported, and often exceptionally dramatic chronicle of intersecting lives repeatedly transformed by the passions and politics of the Syrian revolution & civil war…
check it out: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Days-o...
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On March 25, 2026, 7–9 pm, the Toronto #Holocaust Museum hosts a special evening celebrating survivor Rose Lipszyc and the launch of Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany, a new graphic novel that honours her story.
Details & registration: bit.ly/4tSAI99
Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Today's gift link. "Working with Times Opinion and relying on our contacts in the Iranian diaspora and inside the country, we surveyed 40 Iranian doctors and nurses across 14 cities and 11 provinces about their experiences treating wounded protesters." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Four new Jewish books out today!
See our 2026 releases list here:
https://bookishlyjewish.com/?p=2653
In a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's felt since Russia's incursion. n.pr/4rEeExF
“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.
“Four years later, the sirens still scream, and the Russian attacks have become even deadlier.
What’s changed is the world has become accustomed to the war raging in Europe. We’ve come to accept that things are never going back to the way they were before.”
My essay on four years of war in Ukraine
Pre-order your copy of Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany. In this graphic memoir, Miriam Libicki illustrates the memoirs of thirteen-year-old Rose Lipszyc and her aunt, Róza Finkielsztajn.
Learn more: bit.ly/4qAexSd
#Memoir #JewishStudies
This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
This is one of the loveliest books I've ever encountered in a lifetime of reading: The Wanting Monster – a tender modern fable about the difficult art of resting at the still point of enough www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/29/t...
Parchment is seeking literary work—non-fiction, fiction, reviews, translations, liturgy, interviews, poems, cartoon—that celebrates curiosity and ignites conversation.
Find more information on how to submit at parchmentmag.ca.
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#parchment #writing #literary #submissions #jewish #canadian
Join HBI tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 PM EST online for a special panel discussion on Jewish Women's Graphic Novels about the Holocaust with Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social and @cschallie.bsky.social. bit.ly/JewishWomens...
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A haunting portrayal of a historical atrocity, an inspiring account of a modern friendship, a beautiful work of art, and a meditation on memory itself.
#EmmieArbel: The Colour of Memory by Barbara Yelin is OUT NOW in the UK!
🔗 buff.ly/ofxTUIJ
#selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel
As a child Emmie Arbel survived the Holocaust. It scarred her for life. Barbara Yelin provides a fascinating, compassionate and absorbing biography. @selfmadehero.bsky.social
theslingsandarrows.com/emmie-arbel-...
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
Welcome home, Liam! I hope folks in similar situations to him are reunited with their loved ones soon
Please check out comics4liam.com and thank you to the folks who set this up! #comics4liam
