Maya Balakirsky Katz

Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University and a senior candidate at the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016).

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