Lifelong Learning Presents Jewish Cartoonists of The New Yorker on Zoom
Sunday, March 24, 2024 • 14 Adar II 5784
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
with Bruce Thompson
Since its founding nearly a hundred years ago, The New Yorker has featured not only first-rate journalism and criticism, but also the work of some of the greatest cartoonists in American history. And several of them—William Steig, Saul Steinberg, Bob Mankoff, and Roz Chast—have been Jewish. Is the fact that so many of the funniest and most innovative New Yorker cartoonists have been Jewish an accident? Call him crazy, but Bruce Thompson doesn't think so! In any case, he will examine their distinctively New York Jewish comic sensibilities and present dozens of samples of their brilliance in this centenary tribute to some of the most delightful cartoonists of the past 100 years.
Bruce Thompson has been teaching History and Literature at UCSC since 1991, and has been part of the Jewish Studies Department for over 25 years. Among the many subject areas he teaches are classes on European intellectual and cultural history, French history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage, and environmental history.
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