His second graphic novel “Falafel with Hot Sauce” (Dargaud, France 2018) is about his aliyah and life in Israel. His first graphic novel “Second Generation-Things I did not tell my father” (Dargaud France 2012) was published in nine languages, including German and Polish. He is a member of the international association “Cartooning for Peace.” He received the Israel Dosh Cartoon Award in 2008 he was decorated “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by France Minister of Culture in 2011, the“King Leopold Order” from Belgium in 2014 and the Berheim Award by the Fondation du Judaisme Français in 2019. He studied Graphic Design at the renowned Jerusalem Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the Academy where he teaches as professor of illustration, comics and political cartoon. Michel Kichka grew up in Belgium and emigrated to Israel in 1974 at the age of 19. It was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, the Chautauqua Prize and the National Jewish Book Awards and has been translated into German and Hebrew. The New York Times has called Tehran Children “not simply another detail of the Holocaust, but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection.” In addition to the Times, the book has been reviewed and featured in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the BBC, C-Span, TLS, and the Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications and other media. She is the author of In The East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust, formerly published as Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, as well as The Universal Jew: Modernity, Masculinity and the Zionist Moment and the Hebrew monograph Oedipus in Kishinev. She also serves as core fac- ulty at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. Katz Professor of Humanities at CCNY, where she chairs the English Department and directs the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts.
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