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Show Notes:
2:00 A Visit With Oma
2:45 A House of Sports
3:30 Always Remember Me
3:45 I Will Come Back For You
4:00 Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up In My Immigrant Family
5:00 Graphic memoir about cancer
7:00 Research at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
7:40 Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation
8:00 Research in Italy
8:25 Her brother’s identification of his murdered father
10:30 Immigration experience and being a child of divorced parents
12:30 Jewish Book Council Review
15:30 Sainthood
17:25 German and Yiddish included in graphic novel
18:30 Bengasi 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina
22:30 Cats of Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
22:35 Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís
22:50 No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel
24:45 German program for Holocaust victims to visit Germany
25:20 Visit to Leipzig, Germany
25:45 Gewandhaus - opera and classical music venue in Leipzig, Germany
27:30 how her books work towards historical justice
29:00 Why books dealing with war are important for young readers
31:15 New York City’s Tenement Museum
32:10 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
32:45 how Ms. Russo’s definition of justice has evolved; that justice is for all
33:30 Quote from James Baldwin “It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
34:50 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
35:25 After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
36:00 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
36:40 Maus by Art Spiegelman
37:40 Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast
38:00 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel
38:05 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
38:15 Linda Barry’s books
38:30 Her recent appearance on comic creator panels in NYC
39:30 El Deafo by CeCe Bell
40:00 Spiegelman’s comments on not doing another Maus book
42:20 current book dummy project
42:30 Fiber Artist Liz Albert Fay collaboration for ‘Extraordinary Women’ project viewable on Instagram
45:15 her first book The Line Up Book
45:35 House of Sports was a turn from picture books
46:05 Always Remember Me was her first time addressing the Holocaust in a book
48:00 the passing of her Tante Annie
50:45 Tante’s response about prayer during her time in Auschwitz
53:30 The legacy of her work: to act as a bridge from the former generation to the next generations
55:10 two letters her mother received from employer who was forced to fire her that evidence the reality of the Holocaust era
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
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To learn more, please visit Marisabina Russo's website.
Show Notes:
2:00 A Visit With Oma
2:45 A House of Sports
3:30 Always Remember Me
3:45 I Will Come Back For You
4:00 Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up In My Immigrant Family
5:00 Graphic memoir about cancer
7:00 Research at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
7:40 Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation
8:00 Research in Italy
8:25 Her brother’s identification of his murdered father
10:30 Immigration experience and being a child of divorced parents
12:30 Jewish Book Council Review
15:30 Sainthood
17:25 German and Yiddish included in graphic novel
18:30 Bengasi 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina
22:30 Cats of Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
22:35 Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís
22:50 No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel
24:45 German program for Holocaust victims to visit Germany
25:20 Visit to Leipzig, Germany
25:45 Gewandhaus - opera and classical music venue in Leipzig, Germany
27:30 how her books work towards historical justice
29:00 Why books dealing with war are important for young readers
31:15 New York City’s Tenement Museum
32:10 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
32:45 how Ms. Russo’s definition of justice has evolved; that justice is for all
33:30 Quote from James Baldwin “It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
34:50 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
35:25 After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
36:00 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
36:40 Maus by Art Spiegelman
37:40 Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast
38:00 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel
38:05 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
38:15 Linda Barry’s books
38:30 Her recent appearance on comic creator panels in NYC
39:30 El Deafo by CeCe Bell
40:00 Spiegelman’s comments on not doing another Maus book
42:20 current book dummy project
42:30 Fiber Artist Liz Albert Fay collaboration for ‘Extraordinary Women’ project viewable on Instagram
45:15 her first book The Line Up Book
45:35 House of Sports was a turn from picture books
46:05 Always Remember Me was her first time addressing the Holocaust in a book
48:00 the passing of her Tante Annie
50:45 Tante’s response about prayer during her time in Auschwitz
53:30 The legacy of her work: to act as a bridge from the former generation to the next generations
55:10 two letters her mother received from employer who was forced to fire her that evidence the reality of the Holocaust era
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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