Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Bias or discrimination against Jews as a group. Includes anti-Judaism.
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The Jewish Americans The film series The Jewish Americans touches on themes including immigration, assimilation, antisemitism and community. The PBS website for the film provides many useful resources for teachers, including video clips from the series, lesson plans, and historical background. |
Facing Today | March 14, 2008 |
| "Open Hands, or Fists?": Eboo Patel on Young People's Worldwide Influence | Video Clip | August 7, 2009 |
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86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges (Der Speigel, April 14, 2008) The article, "86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges," reports on what could be the last war crimes trial to take place in Germany. In this case, an elderly SS soldier might be put on trial for shooting three unarmed Dutch civilians in 1944. |
Facing Today | May 14, 2008 |
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A Boy of Old Prague by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Dover Publications) |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Commandant’s View In an interview with journalist Gitta Sereny after his arrest in Brazil in 1971 and subsequent trial, Franz Stangl, the commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, responded to questions. |
Publication Readings | March 9, 2010 |
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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism
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Publication | September 30, 2011 |
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A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell 30 minutes, black & white |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Flight Is Diverted by a Prayer Seen as Ominous Last week a flight attendant on a US Airways Express Flight traveling from La Guardia to Kentucky alerted the cockpit of a suspicious passenger. |
Facing Today | January 25, 2010 |
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A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night
November 9 is the 70th anniversary of
what the Nazi's euphemistically called Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken
Glass. The article "A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night"
describes how researchers recently discovered that a dump 30
miles outside of Berlin, contains physical evidences of what many Holocaust
scholars believe was "the beginning of the end" for Jews in Germany. |
Facing Today | October 30, 2008 |
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A Journey with Purpose The film follows nine-year-old Joshua on a journey with his grandfather (Opa) Martin Becker, a Holocaust survivor, back to Auschwitz where he was imprisoned at age nine for four years. Joshua presents his Opa's story to convey the importance of using the past to prevent injustice in the future. |
Library Resource | May 18, 2012 |
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (432 pp) is an accessible history of antisemitism. This book masterfully communicates the magnitude of this hatred over the centuries and reveals why so many people in so many places have found antisemitism a most “convenient hatred.”
