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Posts by Eddy Portnoy
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How Jewish Newspaper Editors Flipped Anti-Semitic Imagery into the First Yiddish CartoonThe rise of racial and ethnic caricature took place during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The Life and Death of a Yiddish Puppet TheaterPuppets weren’t a common form of entertainment in Jewish culture, but in the mid-1920s, puppetry had become hot in American theater.
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