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Image: from Opening the Windows: A Readers’ Guide to The Prophetic Quest The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau, by JT Waldman. Published by Temple Judea Museum at Congregation Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2015.
Stories of Purpose / A Conversation with Samantha Baskind, Ph.D., and JT Waldman
Thursday, February 10, 2022 @ 6:30 p.m.
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Join us for a conversation between art historian Samantha Baskind, Ph.D., and comic artist JT Waldman on Thursday, February 10 @ 6:30 p.m. EST! Stories of Purpose: The Legacy of Jews and Comics will explore the indelible impact of Jewish authors, artists, illustrators, and publishers on the comic book industry from its beginnings in the early 1930s through the present. Both our speakers have a sustained engagement with the subject of Jews in sequential art and their conversation promises to be both enlightening and entertaining.
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An expert on the history of modern Jewish art and culture, Dr. Samantha Baskind is the author of numerous books and articles including Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004), Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (2007), Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (2014), and The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (2018), in addition to co-editing The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches. Dr. Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University.
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JT Waldman is a critically acclaimed comic book illustrator and interaction designer whose work principally features Jewish narratives and identities, including Megillat Esther (2008), Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, and Opening the Windows (2015). Waldman graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Arts and Ideas in the Humanities and holds a technical degree in digital design from the Vancouver Film School. He also studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Spain, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Liberal Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He has also contributed to From Krakow to Krypton (2008) and The Prophetic Quest: The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau (2021) among other texts.
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Debating Truth / Nina Caputo, Ph.D.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 @ 3:00 p.m. EST
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Nina Caputo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, will share her book Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, A Graphic History (Oxford 2017) on Wednesday, February 23 @ 3:00 p.m. EST. Illustrated by Liz Clarke, Debating Truth dynamically recounts the famed medieval exchange between Rabbi Moses ben Nahman and Dominican Friar Pablo Christiani in the form of a graphic novel intended for academic use. Professor Caputo will discuss her scholarship on interfaith theological discourse and the complicated relationship between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain.
A scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe, Nina Caputo, Ph.D., has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Florida International University, and has been a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Center and a Dorest Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Caputo is also the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007) and has co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) and, with Mitchell B. Hart, On the Word of a Jew. Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust (Indiana, 2019). She is currently working on a book on the figure of the Jewish convert to Christianity in the Middle Ages.
A scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe, Nina Caputo, Ph.D., has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Florida International University, and has been a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Center and a Dorest Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Caputo is also the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007) and has co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) and, with Mitchell B. Hart, On the Word of a Jew. Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust (Indiana, 2019). She is currently working on a book on the figure of the Jewish convert to Christianity in the Middle Ages.
