Judessey by Shay Charka - ISBN: 9781637588840
Paperback
A Jewish partisan’s epic Holocaust journey, echoing the Odyssey’s timeless struggles.

Judessey

  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    18 September 2024

Summary

The journey of a Jewish partisan during the Holocaust.

The Holocaust is an event greater than the sum of the survivor testimonies and the stories of its six million victims. It is an event beyond the capacity of the human brain to contain. It deserves to be described not only in testimonies and documentation, but in legends.

Judessey depicts the journey of Leon, a Jewish professor from Poland who finds himself in the midst of World War II, who strives…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781637588840
ISBN-10:1637588844
Author:Shay Charka
Publisher:Post Hill Press
Imprint:Wicked Son
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:18 September 2024
Weight:218g
Dimensions:10mm x 152mm x 229mm
A-Format
B-Format
Judessey by Shay Charka - ISBN: 9781637588840
152 × 229 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Odysseus, that lucky bastard, had to travel far and wide to meet and best his monsters. Leon, the hero of Shay Charka’s masterful and intense graphic novel, wasn’t so lucky: the monsters, wearing jackboots and swastikas, came to him, devouring his family and everything else he held dear. Gorgeous, profound, and tragically timely, Judessey is a reminder that Jews are forever called to rise up and resist their pursuers, and are forever busy returning to their indigenous homeland, Israel. This epic, hallelujah, places Charka where he belongs, in the front row of comics greats, an artist whose ideas are as stirring as his artwork is transcendent.” – Liel Leibovitz, Editor at Large, Tablet Magazine

About The Author

Shay Charka

Shay Charka is an illustrator for various renowned Hebrew authors and a wide range of publishing houses. He publishes weekly cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations in Makor Rishon, an Israeli magazine, and has published twenty comics books and graphic novels—two of which have been translated into English and published abroad. Charka’s comics albums are mainly inspired from Judaism and Jewish sources, as well as from daily life in Israel. He was the 2019 Animix Notable, an international animation, comics, and cartoon festival held in Israel.

Shay Charka also lectures on visual language to a variety of audiences at national and private institutions, museums, festivals, educational bodies, and cultural centers in Israel and abroad.

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