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Antisemitism Resource Collection

Learn about how to identify and stand up to antisemitism today in your classroom and your community.

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Subject

History
Social Studies

Grade

6–12

Language

English — US

Published

Dec 1, 2021

Updated

Feb 15, 2024

Antisemitism

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Antisemitism is anti-Jewish prejudice, discrimination, hatred, hostility, violence, or oppression. (See our antisemitism explainer for a more detailed explanation of what antisemitism is and how it affects individuals and communities.)

Grounded in Facing History’s student-centered pedagogical approach, these resources will help educators establish a brave, inclusive, and reflective classroom community as they explore this challenging topic. The resources below are organized thematically and will lead you to lesson plans, teaching strategies, videos, and webinars based on what you want to learn and what you want to introduce to your students.

How Our Resources Empower Students and Educators to Stand Up to Antisemitism

Our resources help educators:

Recognize and confront antisemitic bias and hate in their communities
Make connections between traditional and contemporary antisemitism
Examine the shifting representations of antisemitism
Consider how placing blame on a single population, “the Jews,” offers simple and inaccurate solutions to complex societal problems

A Note to Teachers

Establish a brave, inclusive, and reflective classroom community so that you can engage your students in respectful and constructive discourse about challenging topics.

Explainer

Use this Explainer and Tropes Chart to help students understand what antisemitism is, how it shows up in contemporary settings, why it persists, and how it impacts individuals and communities.

Three people stand together with a sign that has the Star of David on it with the saying "Stand Together Against Hate."

Lesson

Students start with the universal and move to the particular to learn about conflation as a manifestation of antisemitism.

A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community in Rostock, Northern Germany

Lesson

Students consider the intentions, dangers, and impacts of online hate by engaging in a step-by-step close analysis and deconstruction of antisemitic memes.

Group of young adult friends on smartphones (FH2193973)

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson explores celebrity influence and online hate, specifically antisemitism.

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Guide

This guide provides a framework for using the documentary film Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life as a tool for teaching about antisemitism.

Photograph of Pittsburgh, PA with " Repairing The World: Stories From The Tree Of Life" written

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

In this webinar, we explore the overlaps-and distinctions-between antisemitism and critical discussions about Israel.

Protestor holding "No Tolerance for Anti-Semitism" sign at demonstration

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Explore the origins and history of prejudice and discrimination against Jews with the resources in this collection.

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Examine how racialized antisemitism has impacted Jews and Jewish communities over the past few centuries with the resources in this collection.

An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""

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Help equip students to recognize contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and their origins using these resources.

People phone scrolling while sitting on public transportation.

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Use these resources to help students recognize and address online antisemitism.

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Help students strengthen their civic voices by exploring examples of individuals who are choosing to participate and make their voices heard in their communities.

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Get resources for addressing troubling antisemitic incidents persisting around the world today with your students.

Students sit around a table working on a big paper activity while receiving feedback from an educator.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

In this webinar students share their personal encounters with antisemitism, the effect that it has on their Jewish identity, and how they respond.

Photo antisemitism protesters marching over bridge.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

In this webinar, we spoke with two YA authors who used literature to stand up against bigotry, and a fellow who wrote a toolkit for confronting white nationalism in schools.

Professional Learning

Jul 11 - Aug 22, 2024

Virtual

This online course includes teaching strategies about the Holocaust and the themes of ethics and responsibility.

Two Holocaust and Human Behavior books are stacked on a table and the background is blurred out.

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Video

Scholars trace anti-Jewish myths, hatred, and violence back to the time of the Roman Empire in this historical overview of anti-Judaism’s roots.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

Learn how concepts of race continue to feed antisemitic ideologies, how antisemitism continues to impact ideas of race, and how we can work to uproot white supremacy and racisms from our schools and society.

Thousands of people participate in No Hate, No Fear Jewish Solidarity March in response to anti-semitic attacks in and around city across Brooklyn Bridge

Video

Scholars describe the persistence of antisemitism in Europe from the Enlightenment through World War I and explain how new social, political, and pseudo-scientific justifications were created to perpetuate old prejudices.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

During this webinar Dr. Rachel Fish and Yair Rosenberg discuss contemporary antisemitism, and how to help students recognize antisemitism.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

In this webinar, panelists discussed how antisemitism manifests differently on the political left and right, as well as when antisemitism and racism intersect and diverge.

Unit

Use this 23-lesson unit to lead middle or high school students through a study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.

Professional Learning

On-Demand

Virtual

This webinar examined the ways that young people encounter antisemitism online and the impact of this consumption.

High school student looking at their smart phone as they scroll.

Book

This book traces antisemitism's evolution over the centuries and examines how the ancient hatred continues to shape attitudes and beliefs in the world today.

A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

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Explore the digital version of our core resource on the Holocaust. Find classroom-ready readings, primary sources, and short documentary films that support a study of the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior.

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