“Thanks to my collaboration with Yarden, and the world of comics she opened up for me, this story — a powerful childhood memory from my journey from Ethiopia to Israel — found its home as a graphic novel.”-Yossi Vassa
It is our hope that these videos bring authentic voices into Sigd observances in the United States and beyond, and that they support educational initiatives about the multicultural nature of the Jewish community.
Blackface is not part of our history, and thus it is not our place to dismiss the pain that it causes to other Black Jews and to non-Jewish African Americans.