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Bias or discrimination against Jews as a group. Includes anti-Judaism.

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"Open Hands, or Fists?": Eboo Patel on Young People's Worldwide Influence
 Video Clip August 7, 2009
A Boy of Old Prague

by Sulamith Ish-Kishor

(Dover Publications)

Tomas, a young boy living in the 1500's, has been taught to be suspicious and even hateful of Jews. His beliefs are challenged when he must confront them in the ghetto. See pages 294-297 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book for a discussion of this novel.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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.

“You’ve been telling me about your routines,” I said to him. “But how did you feel? Was there anything you enjoyed, you felt good about?”

 Publication Readings March 9, 2010
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

 

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.”

 Publication September 30, 2011
A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell

30 minutes, black & white
Source: Filmakers Library

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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
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
A Man of Words

Among the twenty-two men who stood trial at Nuremberg was Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stuermer, an antisemitic newspaper with over six hundred thousand readers.

 Publication Readings December 30, 2011
Antisemitism in the 21st Century

60 minutes
Source: Two Cats Production

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Anton the Dove Fancier: and Other Tales of the Holocaust

by Bernard Gotfryd

(Washington Square Press)

This collection of autobiographical true stories illuminates the experiences of a teenage Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.

 

Watch a video of Bernard Gotfryd discussing Anton the Dove Fancier.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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