Jewish and Israeli Film Festival: Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse

**This film will also be available for a virtual 48-hr film viewing window.**
**Virtual viewing tickets sold separately
**(https://watch.eventive.org/mayersonjccfilmfestival2026/play/695836ed5b77e5983380b6cf)
**Virtual Viewing Region: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida **
2024 ∙ Documentary ∙ 100 minutes English ∙ Molly Bernstein, Phillip Dolin

Explore the work of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the impact of his Pulitzer
Prize-winning graphic novel _Maus_ , about his parents’ survival of the
Holocaust. A defender of free speech, Spiegelman has spoken out as book bans
spread across the country.

**CONTENT WARNING:** antisemitism

** _Presenting Partner: JVS Careers_**
** _Additional partnership support from the Cincinnati Art Museum and the
Holocaust Education Fund of the History Department at Miami University_**

**SPECIAL FEATURE **
**DISCUSSION**
Join us for an in-person post-film discussion with Ranen Omer-Sherman.

Ranen Omer-Sherman is The Jewish Heritage Fund Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
at the University of Louisville. He is the author or editor of six books
including _Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature _(2002),
_Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert_ (2006), _The Jewish Graphic
Novel: Critical Approaches_ (2008), _Narratives of Dissent: War in
Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture_ (2013), I _magining Kibbutz: Visions
of Utopia in Literature and Film _(2015), and _Amos Oz: The Legacy of a
Writer in Israel and Beyond _(2023), as well as numerous essays on Jewish
writers from Israel and North America. He also serves as co-editor of _Shofar:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies_.

**_The Mayerson JCC Jewish & Israeli Film Festival_** presents a diverse,
inspiring lineup of award-winning films and engaging, educational programming
that connects to Jewish and Israeli stories. **To see the whole 2026
lineup,**(https://mayersonjccfilmfestival2026.eventive.org/schedule)**.**

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