In Every Generation
Imagining a Better Future
I wrote this comic after October 7, 2023. I was thinking about it again this week in a different way. If I made this comic today, I would add a page specifically about how I am influenced my the stories of my ancestors, and how they survived through the worst times, and also experienced good times. I would write about how the world is neither a utopia nor a dystopia and never will be one or the other. I would write about how all lives have sorrow and joy, trauma and celebration. I would remind myself how lucky I am to have lived through the past 80 years of peace in most of the world and how so much is better now than it was when I was a child. I would add pages from 1972 to 2024 and a page for the future… We can’t see the future. But we can imagine it. And we need to be imagining a better future, so we can use our imaginations as a roadmap for creation.
Thank you for reading this comic. In these pages, I could only touch the surface of the history of antisemitism. To learn more, check out these resources.
My Comics
Books
The Routledge History of Antisemitism by Mark Weitzman, Robert J. Williams, et al. (2023)
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius (2018)
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg (2013)
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism by Phyllis Goldstein and Harold Évans (2011)
Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present by F. Schweitzer and M. Perry (2003)
Websites
Jewish Virtual Library: "Antisemitism"
Haaretz: "This Day in Jewish History"
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education: "Antisemitism Timeline"
Wikipedia: "Timeline of Antisemitism"
Excellent history lesson.