The 'Maus' Trap: Famous Banned Books by Jewish Authors

The McMinn County school board in Tennessee did not cite Jewish content or author Art Spiegelman's Jewish origins when it yanked the graphic novel Maus from the eighth grade curriculum. Rather, the board cited obscene language and nudity -- leading a number of people on social media to comment, "they're mice!" (In Maus, Jews are depicted as mice, Nazis as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs.)