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Alana M. Vincent is the Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester and the President of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. She works on religion and literature and Jewish post-holocaust thought; her current book project, The Consequences of Imagination: Holocaust Representation and the Politics of Reconciliation in American Popular Culture, investigates the presentation of Holocaust memory in Marvel comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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WandaVision and the Spectre of the Jewish Nazi

Alana Vincent The latest episode of WandaVision has re-ignited a long-running point of discomfort among Jewish comics fans, as it reminds us that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the young Wanda Maximoff willingly joined Hydra—a shadowy successor organisation to the Third Reich—as a volunteer. Why is this an issue? Well, in the comic books, […]

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