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Maus author says Tennessee book banning wasn't antisemitic
The acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel was banned by a US school board last month
February 14, 2022 15:44
The acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel was banned by a US school board last month
February 14, 2022 15:44The author of controversial Holocaust graphic novel Maus has said he doesn't believe the banning of his book was an antisemitic incident.
Art Spiegelman, in an interview with New York Magazine said:“I feel like this wasn’t an actual anti-Semitic incident. It was an incident created by somebody who probably knows very few Jews,"
“The thing that really upset them was me yelling at my father for burning the diaries. I guess it would’ve been better, for the school board, to say, ‘Gee whiz, Pop — I wish you hadn’t done it!’ But that would not have been accurate to my intensity of horror.”
The cover of Maus by Art Spiegelman
