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Maya Balakirsky Katz

Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University and a senior candidate at the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016).

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Jewish Women in Animation

Jewish women were active in animation from its first and formative years, and the study of Jewish women working in animation sheds light on the level of integration of ethnic minorities and women into the industry’s labor force.