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...late comic-book artist Will Eisner, the Jewish people, faced with the rise of fascism, "needed a hero who could protect us against an almost invincible force." Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 was only the first and - like Bob Kane's Batman in 1939, Jack Kirby's Captain America in 1940 and many more that followed - he was created by sons of Jewish immigrants living in New York...
...book historian Didier Pasamonik, a consultant on the exhibit: "There was a kind of diffused anti-Semitism at the time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero of Jewish folklore who was conjured from clay by a rabbi to defend his community...
Harvard head coach Tim Murphy and Yale skipper Jack Siedlecki are surely exhorting their teams to take it one game at a time, that the biggest game of the season is the next one, that you can’t look past any opponent, and on any given Saturday, yada yada yada...
...Frog and Toad 3. Edmund from “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” 4. Old Yeller 5. Willy Wonka 6. Bert and Ernie 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. The Cowardly Lion 9. Timon and Pumbaa 10. Peter Pan 11. Buzz Lightyear 12. Captain Jack Sparrow 13. Bastian from “The Neverending Story” 14. Troy Bolton from “High School Musical” 15. Gonzo
...again makes it all worth it,” Holder said. Despite the raucousness of the crowd, HUPD officers worked to maintain a safe atmosphere for the celebrants. “We took some additional steps to restrict certain things, but everyone understands,” said HUPD officer Jack J. O’Kane. “As long as they aren’t doing anything wrong, they can have all the fun they want.” —Maxwell L. Child, Clifford M. Marks, and Kevin Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story...