Dana Mihailescu

When ALH asked me to write a review of Konrad Bercovici’s posthumous book The Algonquin Roundtable, I was so grateful for the opportunity to revisit his works. Getting to be in NYC and see the Algonquin Hotel as I was finishing the review was an unexpected bonus. doi.org/10.1093/alh/...

Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter Abstract. This interview with Ari Richter, a New York-based Jewish American visual artist whose debut work in the comics medium is his Holocaust graphic na

My interview with Ari Richter on his graphic memoir Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is now out in the spring 2025 issue of MELUS: doi.org/10.1093/melu...

Volume 63 Issue 1 | English Language Notes | Duke University Press

The latest issue of English Language Notes, on refuge and displacement, is out. I also contributed a piece on young Ukrainian refugees' autobiographical narratives. read.dukeupress.edu/english-lang...
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“To America on Foot”: Romanian Jewish Fusgeyers from 1900 in History and Memory | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dana Mihăilescu considers the history and memory of the fusgeyer movement, in which large numbers of impoverished, persecuted Jews suddenly decided to “go on foot” towards the U.S. and Canada.

I will be giving a talk about fusgeyers at YIVO on June 10, 2025, 1 pm EST time, on woom. Details about registering are available here: yivo.org/Fusgeyers

Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter The Holocaust has been addressed in US comics from the 1940s—when it was underway and not yet named or understood as a genocide but as a looming threat to

I am happy to share that my interview with Ari Richter on his fascinating graphic memoir Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz, is now availble on the MELUS website. It is forthcoming in the spring 2025 issue of MELUS. doi.org/10.1093/melu...

I am happy to share that my article on humor as (graphic) resilience and revenge against Holocaust perpetrators in Miriam Katin's graphic narratives has just been published in the latest issue of Rethinking History tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Great to see that my review of Karolina Krasuska's excellent book Soviet Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction has just been published in the latest issue of MLR. muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...