• DOI:10.1353/SHO.2003.0075
Corpus ID: 143511281

X-Men as J Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie

@article{Baron2003XMenAJ,
  title={X-Men as J Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie},
  author={L. Baron},
  journal={Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies},
  year={2003},
  volume={22},
  pages={44 - 52}
}

L. Baron

Published 2003

Sociology

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

The recent movie X-Men (2000) reflects the assimilationist aims, ethnic anxieties, and liberal idealism of the first-generation Jewish Americans who created the original superheroes featured in Marvel Comic Books. Their rejection of Nazi racism, abhorrence of the Holocaust, and support of the Civil Rights Movement motivated them to make Magneto, the antagonist of the X-Men, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who reasonably fears that a new race of mutants like himself may face persecution and eventual… CONTINUE READING

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