The Blog of Dr. Matthew Weinberg, PhD

This summer’s upcoming Superman: Legacy film will make history with the casting of David Corenswet – the first Jewish actor ever to portray Superman on the big screen. The importance of this milestone cannot be overstated. Superman may be an icon of “truth, justice, and the American way,” but his origin is profoundly Jewish: the character was created in 1938 by two young Jewish cartoonists, at a time when Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler was rising in power and spewing hatred. In