Fascists Get the Boot

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“Fascists Get the Boot!”: A Hebrew cartoon from 1943!

Karikatūrah
Mipaām
קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Hebrew first appeared on August 6, 1943 in the
newspaper Al Hamishmar, accompanying an article about the overthrow of
Mussolini. This newspaper and others are made available online by the National
Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press – עיתונות יהודית
היסטורית

Microfilmed
and print copies of newspapers and other material are available at the Center
for Jewish History. Library and archive records can be found in our catalog.

J.D. Arden is a Reference and Genealogy Librarian at CJH where he
curates and translates historical Jewish cartoons for this series Karikatūrah Mipaām ⚫ קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם on the 16th Street Blog and our social media platforms.

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Karikatūrah (קָרִיקָטוּרָה): Hebrew; Comics (American English); from Italian
caricatura; a deliberately exaggerated pictorial representation to
produce a comic effect. Mipaām
(מִפַּעַם): Hebrew;
meaning “of long ago” or “from time”.

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