Matt Reingold
Biographic Data
| ID | 136949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Reingold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Reingold |
| SIGNATURE | REINGOLD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | TanenbaumCHAT, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1723-9969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz
Ari Richter's graphic novel Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance is a third-generation Holocaust memoir. Richter is the grandson and great-grandson of Holocaust survivors, and he begins the work by distancing himself from his grandparents’ Jewish experiences in Europe. Like his parents, Richter “washed himself in a purifying bath of pop culture” with the express purpose of emulating Jewish celebritie…
Innovating Religious Traditions at Jewish Overnight Camps During the Gaza War
This article presents data collected from six North American Jewish overnight summer camps about how the terror attack in Israel on October 7 resulted in changes and innovations in religious rituals and ceremonies. What emerges is clear evidence that current events in Israel directly shaped how overnight Jewish summer camps conducted religious services in the summer of 2024. At times, the inclusion of new texts and traditions caused conflict, but…
Jennifer Caplan
On talking birds and jelly donuts
This article examines two recent Israeli webcomics and explores how each has introduced new modes of graphic communication in Israeli comics. Both are rooted in the Israeli cultural milieu but they reject the forms and substance traditionally associated with Israeli comics and graphic novels. In particular, I analyse Barlev’s use of anthropomorphism and Nachmany’s use of superhero parody in order to offer novel critiques of Israeli society while …
“Easier to Understand but More Difficult to Digest”
Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, has received considerable scholarly attention, with research published about how the country’s youth understand the day but there has been no comparable data from diaspora Jews. This article presents findings about how a cohort of Canadian Jewish teenagers participating in a gallery walk of Israeli political cartoons provided new ways of thinking about and relating to Yom HaZikaron. The data revealed that …
Navigating Crisis Together
Teaching Israel
Cartooning from the right
Political cartoons are valuable cultural artifacts which not only capture moments in time but also offer the illustrator's insight into those moments. This essay examines how three of Israel's Religious Zionist cartoonists have illustrated the first three months of the 2023 nationwide protests and the judicial overhaul that sparked them. Shay Charka, Or Reichert, and Reut Bortz all self-identify as members of the Religious Zionist community but t…
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political cartoonists broadens conversations about contemporary challenges in the country. Matt Reingold shows how 21 cartoonists across 10 different Israeli newspapers produced cartoons in response to the country’s social and political crises between December 2018–June 2021, a period where the co…
Israeli graphic novels & the second Palestinian Intifada
The following paper analyzes Rutu Modan’s and Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem’s graphic texts about the Second Palestinian Intifada and its impact on Israeli society in the early 2000s. Modan’s position as an Israeli and Baxter’s position as an American lead to different approaches to presenting the narrative. Baxter’s place as an outsider leads him to focus his text on the specific details on the bombing itself as he tries to understand how terror…
Confronting BDS in the Classroom
A practitioner research study was carried out with 31 students who were enrolled in a course on contemporary Israeli society at a Zionist Jewish high school. As part of a unit designed to introduce students to criticisms against Israel, students watched 3 videos produced by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and by university student newspapers. The study assessed whether watching videos of BDS behaviours negatively affected th…
Changing Students’ Perceptions by Humanizing Dati Israelis through Comics
A qualitative practitioner research study was conducted with 31 high school students studying religion contemporary Israeli society. The purpose of the study was to understand how using cartoons written and illustrated by the religious Jewish-Israeli settler Shay Charka challenged students to think about religion in Israeli society in new ways and whether introducing perspectives that were foreign to their North American Jewish education led to n…
On the Limits of Trauma
Secular Jewish Identity in Asaf Hanuka's “The Realist”
Non-religious Jews in Israel may define themselves as secular, yet they often observe Jewish traditions. While not monolithic in their practice, they are far less secular on the whole than their counterparts in other western countries. Recent surveys have effectively demonstrated the different forms these religious practices take but not the rationale behind them. Six of Asaf Hanuka's 400 weekly comic strip "The Realist" provide insight into why …
Secondary Students’ Evolving Relationships and Connections with Israel
This article presents a qualitative practitioner research study designed to understand how a morally complex Israel curriculum impacts the nature of secondary school students’ relationships with Israel. The research was conducted with 31 students enrolled in an elective about Israeli society at a Jewish high school in Canada. At both the start and conclusion of the course, students used a predetermined list of relationships to determine the one t…
Redefining the Boundaries of the Sacred
This essay considers three recent Jewish graphic novels that synthesize biblical and Rabbinic texts with exegetical illustrations. Designating these works as sacred graphic novels provides an opportunity for considering the boundaries of the genres of, and interrelationship between, sacred Jewish literature and graphic novels. The concept of sacred graphic novels is explored by analyzing J.T. Waldman’s Megillat Esther, Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s Pir…
Fantastical Autography in Asaf Hanuka's The Realist
Critiquing Israeli Society Through Mirroring in Asaf Hanuka’s “The Realist”
Seven of Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s comic strips from his weekly series The Realist make use montage-like elements by juxtaposing distorted mirror images of scenes. While published over the course of Hanuka’s almost 10-year run and addressing radically different topics, the structure and nature of the seven strips is remarkably similar. Each includes the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas to offer a commentary on a different aspect of the I…
Getting Graphic
Six recent non-fiction graphic novels about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are analyzed in order to understand how narratives are constructed and presented about each community. What emerges when considered together is that while complex narratives that challenge hegemonic stereotypes are depicted about the community that the authors favour, their depiction of 'the other' often relies on either stereotypes or omissions and these depictions pres…
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
Reviewed by: Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis Matt Reingold Naomi K. Lewis. Tiny Lights for Travellers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2019. 218 pp. Bibliography. $26.00 sc. Correction: In a previous version of the above book review which appeared in the database from June 27 to July 22, 2020, the following erratum applies: Errors appear in this book review and are noted as follows: On page 139, lines 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, a…
Israeli and Polish Holocaust Commemoration in Rutu Modan's The Property
This article analyzes Rutu Modan's graphic novel The Property in light of the widening gap between Jews, Israelis, and Poles over how to best understand, remember, and commemorate the Holocaust. Rejecting simplistic notions that present Poles as solely perpetrators or victims, Modan offers a model for reconciliation that recognizes the importance of heritage, legacy, and postmemory while arguing that these groups can share together in the tragedy…
A National Reckoning
The following paper analyses Ari Folman’s 2009 graphic novel Waltz with Bashir and Galit and Gilad Seliktar’s short graphic narrative ‘Houses’. Each presents a visualization of an Israeli soldier forced to bear witness to a morally compromising event during their mandatory national service. The texts, while written within the last decade, depict wars from the 1980s and 1990s. Their narratives differ from the state-sanctioned versions of Israel’s …
Broadening Perspectives on Immigrant Experiences
Over the course of the 2015–2016 academic year, 12th-grade students at a Jewish high school in Canada participated in a research study that assessed how they integrated morally complex narratives in Israel’s past into their own relationship with the country. This article presents material based on how students reacted to learning that some Jewish immigrants were mistreated by the government by way of intentional economic disparity, depiction as g…
Not the Israel of My Elementary School
The following article presents data from a mixed-methods practitioner research study that focuses on understanding how Jewish secondary students learned about controversial topics in Israel's history and how these topics impacted their connection to the country. The responses that were provided by the students showed that the material forced students to conceptualize Israel in new ways and that the material— learning from Palestinian and Israeli …
Secular Jewish Identity in Asaf Hanuka's “The Realist”
Non-religious Jews in Israel may define themselves as secular, yet they often observe Jewish traditions. While not monolithic in their practice, they are far less secular on the whole than their counterparts in other western countries. Recent surveys have effectively demonstrated the different forms these religious practices take but not the rationale behind them. Six of Asaf Hanuka's 400 weekly comic strip "The Realist" provide insight into why …
Not the Israel of My Elementary School
The following article presents data from a mixed-methods practitioner research study that focuses on understanding how Jewish secondary students learned about controversial topics in Israel's history and how these topics impacted their connection to the country. The responses that were provided by the students showed that the material forced students to conceptualize Israel in new ways and that the material— learning from Palestinian and Israeli …
Secondary Students’ Evolving Relationships and Connections with Israel
This article presents a qualitative practitioner research study designed to understand how a morally complex Israel curriculum impacts the nature of secondary school students’ relationships with Israel. The research was conducted with 31 students enrolled in an elective about Israeli society at a Jewish high school in Canada. At both the start and conclusion of the course, students used a predetermined list of relationships to determine the one t…
Israeli and Polish Holocaust Commemoration in Rutu Modan's The Property
This article analyzes Rutu Modan's graphic novel The Property in light of the widening gap between Jews, Israelis, and Poles over how to best understand, remember, and commemorate the Holocaust. Rejecting simplistic notions that present Poles as solely perpetrators or victims, Modan offers a model for reconciliation that recognizes the importance of heritage, legacy, and postmemory while arguing that these groups can share together in the tragedy…
Not the Israel of My Elementary School
The following article presents data from a mixed-methods practitioner research study that focuses on understanding how Jewish secondary students learned about controversial topics in Israel's history and how these topics impacted their connection to the country. The responses that were provided by the students showed that the material forced students to conceptualize Israel in new ways and that the material— learning from Palestinian and Israeli …
Broadening Perspectives on Immigrant Experiences
Over the course of the 2015–2016 academic year, 12th-grade students at a Jewish high school in Canada participated in a research study that assessed how they integrated morally complex narratives in Israel’s past into their own relationship with the country. This article presents material based on how students reacted to learning that some Jewish immigrants were mistreated by the government by way of intentional economic disparity, depiction as g…
Israeli and Polish Holocaust Commemoration in Rutu Modan's The Property
This article analyzes Rutu Modan's graphic novel The Property in light of the widening gap between Jews, Israelis, and Poles over how to best understand, remember, and commemorate the Holocaust. Rejecting simplistic notions that present Poles as solely perpetrators or victims, Modan offers a model for reconciliation that recognizes the importance of heritage, legacy, and postmemory while arguing that these groups can share together in the tragedy…
A National Reckoning
The following paper analyses Ari Folman’s 2009 graphic novel Waltz with Bashir and Galit and Gilad Seliktar’s short graphic narrative ‘Houses’. Each presents a visualization of an Israeli soldier forced to bear witness to a morally compromising event during their mandatory national service. The texts, while written within the last decade, depict wars from the 1980s and 1990s. Their narratives differ from the state-sanctioned versions of Israel’s …
Redefining the Boundaries of the Sacred
This essay considers three recent Jewish graphic novels that synthesize biblical and Rabbinic texts with exegetical illustrations. Designating these works as sacred graphic novels provides an opportunity for considering the boundaries of the genres of, and interrelationship between, sacred Jewish literature and graphic novels. The concept of sacred graphic novels is explored by analyzing J.T. Waldman’s Megillat Esther, Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s Pir…
Fantastical Autography in Asaf Hanuka's The Realist
Critiquing Israeli Society Through Mirroring in Asaf Hanuka’s “The Realist”
Seven of Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s comic strips from his weekly series The Realist make use montage-like elements by juxtaposing distorted mirror images of scenes. While published over the course of Hanuka’s almost 10-year run and addressing radically different topics, the structure and nature of the seven strips is remarkably similar. Each includes the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas to offer a commentary on a different aspect of the I…
Getting Graphic
Six recent non-fiction graphic novels about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are analyzed in order to understand how narratives are constructed and presented about each community. What emerges when considered together is that while complex narratives that challenge hegemonic stereotypes are depicted about the community that the authors favour, their depiction of 'the other' often relies on either stereotypes or omissions and these depictions pres…
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
Reviewed by: Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis Matt Reingold Naomi K. Lewis. Tiny Lights for Travellers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2019. 218 pp. Bibliography. $26.00 sc. Correction: In a previous version of the above book review which appeared in the database from June 27 to July 22, 2020, the following erratum applies: Errors appear in this book review and are noted as follows: On page 139, lines 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, a…
Israeli graphic novels & the second Palestinian Intifada
The following paper analyzes Rutu Modan’s and Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem’s graphic texts about the Second Palestinian Intifada and its impact on Israeli society in the early 2000s. Modan’s position as an Israeli and Baxter’s position as an American lead to different approaches to presenting the narrative. Baxter’s place as an outsider leads him to focus his text on the specific details on the bombing itself as he tries to understand how terror…
Confronting BDS in the Classroom
A practitioner research study was carried out with 31 students who were enrolled in a course on contemporary Israeli society at a Zionist Jewish high school. As part of a unit designed to introduce students to criticisms against Israel, students watched 3 videos produced by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and by university student newspapers. The study assessed whether watching videos of BDS behaviours negatively affected th…
Changing Students’ Perceptions by Humanizing Dati Israelis through Comics
A qualitative practitioner research study was conducted with 31 high school students studying religion contemporary Israeli society. The purpose of the study was to understand how using cartoons written and illustrated by the religious Jewish-Israeli settler Shay Charka challenged students to think about religion in Israeli society in new ways and whether introducing perspectives that were foreign to their North American Jewish education led to n…
On the Limits of Trauma
Secular Jewish Identity in Asaf Hanuka's “The Realist”
Non-religious Jews in Israel may define themselves as secular, yet they often observe Jewish traditions. While not monolithic in their practice, they are far less secular on the whole than their counterparts in other western countries. Recent surveys have effectively demonstrated the different forms these religious practices take but not the rationale behind them. Six of Asaf Hanuka's 400 weekly comic strip "The Realist" provide insight into why …
Secondary Students’ Evolving Relationships and Connections with Israel
This article presents a qualitative practitioner research study designed to understand how a morally complex Israel curriculum impacts the nature of secondary school students’ relationships with Israel. The research was conducted with 31 students enrolled in an elective about Israeli society at a Jewish high school in Canada. At both the start and conclusion of the course, students used a predetermined list of relationships to determine the one t…
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political cartoonists broadens conversations about contemporary challenges in the country. Matt Reingold shows how 21 cartoonists across 10 different Israeli newspapers produced cartoons in response to the country’s social and political crises between December 2018–June 2021, a period where the co…
Teaching Israel
Cartooning from the right
Political cartoons are valuable cultural artifacts which not only capture moments in time but also offer the illustrator's insight into those moments. This essay examines how three of Israel's Religious Zionist cartoonists have illustrated the first three months of the 2023 nationwide protests and the judicial overhaul that sparked them. Shay Charka, Or Reichert, and Reut Bortz all self-identify as members of the Religious Zionist community but t…
On talking birds and jelly donuts
This article examines two recent Israeli webcomics and explores how each has introduced new modes of graphic communication in Israeli comics. Both are rooted in the Israeli cultural milieu but they reject the forms and substance traditionally associated with Israeli comics and graphic novels. In particular, I analyse Barlev’s use of anthropomorphism and Nachmany’s use of superhero parody in order to offer novel critiques of Israeli society while …
“Easier to Understand but More Difficult to Digest”
Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, has received considerable scholarly attention, with research published about how the country’s youth understand the day but there has been no comparable data from diaspora Jews. This article presents findings about how a cohort of Canadian Jewish teenagers participating in a gallery walk of Israeli political cartoons provided new ways of thinking about and relating to Yom HaZikaron. The data revealed that …
Navigating Crisis Together
Innovating Religious Traditions at Jewish Overnight Camps During the Gaza War
This article presents data collected from six North American Jewish overnight summer camps about how the terror attack in Israel on October 7 resulted in changes and innovations in religious rituals and ceremonies. What emerges is clear evidence that current events in Israel directly shaped how overnight Jewish summer camps conducted religious services in the summer of 2024. At times, the inclusion of new texts and traditions caused conflict, but…
Jennifer Caplan
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz
Ari Richter's graphic novel Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance is a third-generation Holocaust memoir. Richter is the grandson and great-grandson of Holocaust survivors, and he begins the work by distancing himself from his grandparents’ Jewish experiences in Europe. Like his parents, Richter “washed himself in a purifying bath of pop culture” with the express purpose of emulating Jewish celebritie…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Judaism (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works)