Crumb’s Genesis
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Heschel Transcendent
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Dust-to-Dust Song
Nelly Sachs was 50 years old when she fled the Nazis with her mother in 1940. Few would have perdicted that she would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature twenty-six years later.
The Russian Joseph
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Strange Journey: A Response to Shmuel Trigano
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johndavidhutsell
i was disappointed that it was just a straight re-telling of the tale, with no skeptical, critical commentary.
like Harvey said, it was typical Crumb illustration--good, but nothing new. none of the highly valuable Crumb insight.