Opening Preview Event
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Miriam Eve Mora, creator and managing curator of Chosen Heroes: The Jewish Comics Experience, about the Jewish history of the comics industry. A historian of American immigration and Jewish identity specializing in gender, Dr. Mora will show how the early comics industry and the works created within it reflected not only Jewish identity at the time, but the ways in which global events were influencing and impacting Jewish communities around the world.
Bringing together her research on gender and Jewish identity with the histories of migration and antisemitism, Dr. Mora will reveal what comics can tell us, both on the page and behind the scenes, from the golden age to today. She will also explore why comics and sequential art are increasingly recognized as a vital part of Jewish literature.
Event Information
DATE: Thursday, October 15
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Jewish Museum Milwaukee
COST: $12 members | $18 non-members
Opening Preview Schedule
6:45 PM: Doors open
7:00 PM: Light appetizers, dessert and wine reception while viewing the exhibit
7:25 PM: Welcome by Susan Lubar, JMM Board Chair
7:30 PM: ‘The Jewish Multiverse: Identity, Imagination, and American Comics’ Conversation with Curator and Historian, Dr. Miriam Eve Mora
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of American immigration and ethnic history whose scholarship focuses on modern Jewish history, Jewish American gender identity, antisemitism, Holocaust memory, and the role of comics and popular culture in shaping Jewish identity.
She is currently the Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan and previously served as Director of Academic and Public Programs and Academic Director at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Mora is the author of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century (Wayne State University Press, 2024).
Exhibition created by the Center for Jewish History with contributions from American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Presented by Jewish Museum Milwaukee and expanded with local content.