Send to. Add a message. Send me a copy. Thank you! This article has been sent! This is a play on the 36 lamed vav tzadikim [hidden righteous men] from the Talmud.
How have I not put this together on my own!? And Oa, their home, is the center of the universe, and at times looks like Tel Aviv, the city of the future. There is talk that the next movie Superman will be Black. How do you feel about this? It could always be a Black Jewish actor. This is only a problem when it is contrived. Everything else is moving forward, except this one category is moving backwards. Even when there are new cases, like the Flash, it is reverting a little to stereotypes.
For Superman so far in his history — he shoots lasers from his eyes. He can fly. Biologically he may as well be a dolphin. Jews are non-whites who pass for white, right? To the people who really care about this stuff, we are not white. So Superman can be whatever. Dean Cain, who played him on TV, was not fully caucasian. The character worked, because he could hide within the dominant culture.
This is what could potentially be interesting. Clark Kent, though a secret Kryptonian, was accepted everywhere. Black people in America, despite the fact that we had a two-term Black president, still have difficulty being accepted in the mainstream. A passing Jewish person has an easier route. This next film, if it goes that way, will perhaps need to make something of a fundamental change.
Maybe Hawkman, who is Egyptian? Certainly not Wonder Woman, now with Gal Gadot. This article contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something, The Times of Israel may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme.
These are bite-size audio Hebrew classes that we think you'll really enjoy. This month, we're learning phrases on the topic of strength and power. Ready to get tough with us? Facebook Twitter email Print. Superman puts the non-Aryan smackdown on Hitler. Courtesy Roy Schwartz. The trial of Lex Luthor bears a striking resemblance to the Eichmann trial. Superman takes action during the Holocaust and is called a Golem. A Superman sequence whose final frame depicts a classic Holocaust photo from the Warsaw Ghetto.
In X-Men, mutants are victimised for their differences. Photograph: DC Comics. Reuse this content. And unfortunately, these stories are not necessarily stories of the past. People have called Superman, who is sent away from his home planet just before it is destroyed, as the ultimate immigrant character. And can Superman more specifically be compared to a Jewish refugee fleeing a burning Europe?
I once read that his origin story is an allegory to the Kindertransport, but this is, of course, a post-Holocaust analysis.
Both their parents escaped poverty and pogroms in Eastern Europe, so this could have influenced the story, which some see as a kind of modernized Moses tale. The double identity came from Zorro. What made Superman a success was that Siegel and Shuster understood the zeitgeist, took elements from contemporary pop culture and created something totally new, something that even today, 80 years after its debut, remains a global success.
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