Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive.

Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brou...