Jewish Writers Institute

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Josh Eiserike

Digital Storytellers Lab

2024 Fellow

Josh Eiserike

PALE OF SETTLEMENT

PALE OF SETTLEMENT is a comic– a YA Webtoon adventure set in 1881, about a rabbi’s headstrong daughter who sets out in search of the legendary Golem after a pogrom destroys her shtetl and the Cossacks kidnap her father. It’s set in the far reaches of the Czar’s Russian empire—think STRANGER THINGS-meets-FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (but without the songs).

Josh is a writer/cartoonist living in Los Angeles whose TV credits include LEGACIES (CW), WARIGAMI (CW) and G.I. JOE: RENEGADES (The HUB). Josh’s published works include the graphic novels THE VERY FINAL LAST GIRLS, CHARM CITY and a handful of pieces in MAD Magazine. Originally from Maryland, Josh previously worked as a newspaper reporter in the Washington, D.C. area, where he covered everything from Congress to the Warped Tour.