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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

book bans

Frank W. Baker's book "We Survived the Holocaust," featuring illustrations by Tim Ogline, tells the real-life story of Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg. (Courtesy Imagine and Wonder)
September 11, 2024, 12:10 pm
South Carolina school district bans graphic novel about local Holocaust survivors
Author of ‘We Survived the Holocaust’ says he’s ‘shocked, appalled and dismayed’ as authorities cite new state guidelines on which books are ‘appropriate’ for middle schoolers
By Andrew Lapin
A man holds a copy of the graphic novel version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", by Israeli writer-director Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, in Paris Sept. 18, 2017. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images vita JTA)
June 27, 2024, 6:40 am
Texas school district pulls Anne Frank’s diary after right-wing group’s complaint
Superintendent removes 676 books, including seminal texts about Holocaust and antisemitism, amid calls from conservative activists
By Andrew Lapin
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
Political activist and writer Elie Wiesel on November 3, 1980 in New York, New York. (Santi Visalli/Getty Images via JTA)
January 4, 2024, 8:39 am
To protect Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ US judge blocks part of ‘bizarre’ book ban law
Iowa judge Stephen Locher says that the ‘broad’ law banning books that depict sex acts could prevent schools from stocking Holocaust education books
By Andrew Lapin
A photo of the late Jewish Canadian-American author Saul Bellow used for the first-edition back cover of 'Herzog' in 1964. (Photo by Jeff Lowenthal, Published by Viking Press, Public Domain, Wikimedia)
December 22, 2023, 5:15 am
Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries
Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal
By Andrew Lapin
'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.' (Courtesy: Anne Frank Fonds via JTA)
November 2, 2023, 2:15 pm
Mom for Liberty who banned Anne Frank graphic novel appears on antisemitic livestream
Jennifer Pippin, chair of conservative US group’s Florida chapter, says she’s ‘not sorry’ for appearing on TruNews owned by conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles
By Andrew Lapin
Matt Nosanchuk, right, meeting with then-President Barack Obama and then-National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, Aug. 4, 2015. (White House Photo Office)
September 27, 2023, 5:02 am
New US point person on tackling book bans is a longtime progressive Jewish leader
Appointment of Matt Nosanchuk comes as thousands of book challenges across US focus on works about race, LGBTQ and Jewish themes
By Andrew Lapin
Cameron Samuels, a Jewish college student and book-access activist, discusses the impact of their Texas high school's challenge to "Maus" at a Senate hearing on book bans, Sept. 12, 2023. (C-SPAN Screenshot via JTA)
September 13, 2023, 11:06 am
‘Maus,’ Nazis and Shylock references make appearances at US Senate book ban hearing
Debate comes as ‘parents’ rights’ groups challenge thousands of books in school libraries, saying that they’re not appropriate for children
By Andrew Lapin
American author Bernard Malamud, author of 'The Fixer,' in August 1980. (Nancy R. Schiff/Getty Images via JTA)
August 19, 2023, 3:23 am
How a US school district put a contested Bernard Malamud classic back on the shelves
On an oft-unseen battlefield of the culture war over books in states and school districts around the country, there are panels of judges that may feel more like a book club
By Andrew Lapin
Ivie Szalai speaks against students reading 'The Fixer' at a Beaufort County school board meeting at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts in South Carolina, June 27, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 3, 2023, 11:43 pm
Year after ban, US school district to bring back novel about antisemitic blood libel
South Carolina district originally pulled ‘The Fixer’ by Jewish author Bernard Malamud after concerns by conservative group Moms for Liberty over ‘controversial’ content
By Andrew Lapin
Ivie Szalai speaks against students reading 'The Fixer' at a Beaufort County school board meeting at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts in South Carolina, June 27, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 21, 2023, 9:38 pm
US school district removes classic novel ‘The Fixer,’ about a 1911 blood libel
Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s book on antisemitism has been challenged before and led to a Supreme Court decision on book bans. Now, a South Carolina mom wants it gone again
By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER
People leaving the venue that hosted the Moms for Liberty meeting argue with demonstrators in Philadelphia, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
July 9, 2023, 4:24 am
How a US Jewish group and the right-wing Moms for Liberty shared a conference hotel
When the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs learned the conservative group supporting book bans would share their space, it was too late to change plans – but cooler heads prevailed
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The Bible is read aloud at the Utah Capitol, November 25, 2013. (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
June 22, 2023, 8:51 pm
Utah school district returns the Bible to its shelves after ban sparked outcry
Davis School District rules that text is age-appropriate, after it was banned last month amid Republican push to get ‘sensitive material’ out of student libraries
By SAM METZ
'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.' (Courtesy: Anne Frank Fonds via JTA)
June 17, 2023, 6:20 am
Amid push to ban books in US schools, some call new Anne Frank graphic novel ‘porn’
As a movement to police kids’ literature becomes a political force that may impact the 2024 election, the famous Holocaust diary is the subject of a growing number of controversies
By Andrew Lapin
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
June 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Missouri school district to debate ban of ‘Maus’ over potential ‘sexual material’
Art Spiegelman, author of Holocaust graphic novel, leading fight against possible move at district of 6,000 students: ‘Book burning leads to people burning’
By Andrew Lapin
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