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MAD magazine artists reveal how anti-Semitism shaped American comics (video)

Mark Frauenfelder
Jun 25, 2025
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MAD Cover #5 by Bill Elder

"In every local newspaper, there would be long lists for resort hotels in the Poconos or in certain parts of the Catskills, and they would just simply have the word 'restricted, '" recalls the late legendary MAD magazine artist Al Jaffee about life in mid-century America. "Every Jewish person knew what restricted meant — it mea…

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