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Abie the Agent was a popular early American comic strip about a Jewish car salesman by Harry Hershfield. For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ...
Harry Hershfield (1885 - 1974) was the american comic artist, humour writer. ...
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King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ...
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Harry Hershfield (1885 - 1974) was the american comic artist, humour writer. ...
History
When Hershfield had success with a Yiddish character in his comic strip Desperate Desmond, he was encouraged by his editor to create a new strip centered around Yiddishism and Jewish immigrants in the United States. Abraham Kabibble, known as Abie the Agent, was the first Jewish protagonist in an American comic strip.[1] The car salesman debuted in the New York newspaper the Journal on February 2, 1914.[2] Yiddish (Yid. ...
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Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Abie was a positive rebuttal of the many Jewish stereotypes in caricatures, and showed with gentle humor a successful middle class immigrant.[3] While Abie and his friends had many of the typical Jewish characteristics, from the names to the use of Yiddish words and accents, they also lacked many of the more typical or malicious elements usually found in the depictions of Jews, like their distinct physical traits. Abie was in many ways indistinguishable from other, white Americans, and was a prime example of the belief in the integration of German Jews in the society of the United States. In 1917, Abie even enlisted in the regular army to help the USA win World War I. The character lost many of his more typical Jewish characteristics over the decades, showing his successful integration but also slowly diminishing the particular character that set this comic strip apart from the others.[4] However, the comic can hardly be seen as anti-racist or anti-discriminatory, since it only tried to promote the assimilation of Jews as white Americans, but at the same time distanced them from other ethnicities like the Mexicans or the African Americans who were generally depicted in an inferior role.[4] “The Great War †redirects here. ...
The comic became quickly popular, and in 1917 two animated cartoons were made.[2] No further spinoffs or much merchandise appeared though, and the comic strip went on hiatus between 1931 and 1935, to finally disappear in 1940. An indication of its popularity was the reference to Abie Kabibble used in Animal Crackers, the 1930 Marx Brothers movie.[4] In a time when Jews were often caricaturized and put in a negative light in America, the gentle humour of Hershfield and the positive depiction of a Jew as a successful lower middle class immigrant trying to integrate himself,[4] shed a different light on the problems immigrants faced in those years, and is one of the reasons Abie the Agent has been called the first adult comic.[5] Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, and one of the Marx Brothers most beloved and oft-quoted movies. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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