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This Cartoon Poignantly Illustrates How We Experience Inherited Trauma

Image by Jonathan Rotsztain

By Self-Loving Jew January 8, 2018

“Science aside, no one needs to prove to me the provenance of passed down suffering.”

Image by Jonathan Rotsztain

See more of the self-loving Jew on his website.

Jonathan Rotsztain is a and a writer, cartoonist and graphic designer based in Toronto. His Self-Loving Jew autobiographical comics claim a secular, cultural identity that honors Jewish customs, while adapting them alongside other value considerations. Rotsztain is the creator of the daily Dreary Diary comic. Learn more at rotsztain.

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