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Superman
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Film review
The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing
By
Jordan Hoffman
While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11
July 9, 2025, 12:53 am
The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing
While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11
By
Jordan Hoffman
April 18, 2025, 7:59 pm
As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones
The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent
By
DEEPA BHARATH
and
BOB SMIETANA
March 15, 2025, 8:34 am
Truth, justice and Yiddishisms: How superhero comics tell the tale of American Jews
Marvel and DC were both started by 2nd-generation Jewish immigrants eager to break comic industry’s glass ceiling, share their families’ stories and punch Hitler right in the kisser
By
Miriam Eve Mora
April 9, 2024, 8:26 pm
Comic featuring Superman’s first appearance sells for $6M
Auction company selling 1938 rare copy hails edition as ‘most important comic ever published’ for creating superhero still used in comic strips and movies today
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AP
August 11, 2023, 5:06 am
David Corenswet, the next Superman, was married by a rabbi and a priest in New Orleans
First Jewish Superman has generations of family ties to city’s historic Temple Sinai
By
Gabe Friedman
June 28, 2023, 2:33 pm
The Jewish roots of DC’s newest ‘Superman’
Actor David Corenswet, whose father came from a prominent Jewish family, is set to play the role in the upcoming DC Studios film, alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane
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ToI Staff
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AP
January 4, 2023, 12:28 pm
New US lawmaker to swear in on rare Superman comic book
Robert Garcia to pay homage to his immigrant background, having learned English from superhero stories; comic inspired by Jewish writers’ experiences growing up in migrant families
By
ToI Staff
July 24, 2021, 2:21 am
Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain
Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive ‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense
By
Jordan Hoffman
July 22, 2021, 2:38 pm
Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?
Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish
By
ToI Staff
March 6, 2021, 11:10 am
Vladimir Nabokov’s Superman poem published for 1st time
Poem rejected by the New Yorker in 1942 because ‘many of our readers wouldn’t quite get it’ is printed by the Times Literary Supplement
By
ToI Staff
October 6, 2018, 5:20 am
The tragic tale of Superman’s Jewish creators, told in graphic novel form
‘The Joe Shuster Story’ by Julian Voloj and Thomas Campi portrays the children of Eastern European immigrants and how they nearly attained the wealth they dreamed of
By
Gabe Friedman
June 22, 2018, 11:40 pm
Film producer, TV’s Superman honored by Holocaust remembrance group
Jack Garfein became a civil rights activist after immigrating to US; actor Dean Cain recently produced a documentary about the Armenian genocide
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JTA
March 4, 2018, 9:12 pm
Rivlin defends free press amid Netanyahu onslaught
President calls journalism a ‘necessary institution’ of democracy, urges press to emulate his childhood journalist heroes: Jabotinsky and Superman
By
Raoul Wootliff
February 17, 2018, 5:30 am
DC Comics’ newest writer is poised to make Superman Jewish again
Brian Michael Bendis, who moved from Marvel, will start drawing new comic books with the iconic superhero in May
By
Marcy Oster
November 17, 2016, 4:02 pm
At first Jewish Comic Con, artists and geeks revel in tradition
Between prayers, an intimate, more niche convention represents core comic culture — a small community invested in its roots
By
Ben Sales
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