Author Art Spiegelman calls the decision ‘Orwellian,’ while the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum notes the ‘vital role’ the graphic novel has played in educating about the Shoah
WASHINGTON – Jewish organizations, politicians, authors and cultural figures have swiftly denounced a Tennessee school board’s unanimous vote to remove “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its curriculum.
The McMinn County school board members decried the Pulitzer Prize-winning book’s use of curse words, nude drawings and “not wise or healthy content” within it – a decision Spiegelman decried as “Orwellian.”
