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wenty-five years ago,

During the time I spent observing life in the Salomon
household, I learned how Jews succeeded in rising in this
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like Art Spiegelman (Maus), Ben

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and Harvey Pekar (American

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Eisner is back •this fall with

another comic revolution - Fagin

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the je-a, (Doubleday). Whereas

the Fagin of Dickens' Oliver

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ical thief, Eisner's Fagin is

plex, tortured character

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discrimination in the slums of

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angel, but his story - told to a

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bracing corrective to the portrayal

of the most famous Jewish anti-
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hero since Shylock.

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