The Magical Images of Israeli Political Cartoonist Shay Charka — “Roots”
The third story in the series is an acerbic, affecting reflection on family memories and the impulse to look for our “Roots” in the landscape of post-Holocaust Europe.
The third story in the series is an acerbic, affecting reflection on family memories and the impulse to look for our “Roots” in the landscape of post-Holocaust Europe.
The second in the series, “Nehemia,” mischievously retells the Hasidic tale of the Baal Shem Tov and the boy who played flute on Yom Kippur, making a place for the cartoonist in a story Agnon included in his “Days of Awe.”
The first in the series, “Berlin,” captures the haunting experience of the Jewish visitor to that city, figured as the boy from the Warsaw Ghetto photograph.