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Edward Portnoy
Edward Portnoy is a doctoral candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he is currently completing his doctoral dissertation, "The Creation of a Jewish Cartoon Space in the Yiddish Presses of New York and Warsaw, 1889-1939." He received an MA in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University in 1997, where he wrote his masters thesis on the lives and work of artists/cartoonists/performers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler. His articles include "Freaks, Geeks and Wrestlers: Jews, Popular Performance and Audience Reception in Warsaw, 1912-1930," TDR (to appear in 2006); "Follow My Nose: Self-caricature in the Yiddish Press," International Journal of Comic Art (2004); "Exploiting Tradition: The Use of Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Yiddish Press," Polin (2003); "Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire and Yiddish Culture," TDR (1999); and entries on Modicut Theater and the poet Aaron Kramer in Encyclopedia of the American Left (1998).
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