antisemitism

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antisemitism

The golem's mighty swing

2003
Contains a graphic novel that follows the adventures of a Jewish baseball team in the 1920s that creates a golem--a legendary creature--to help them when the going gets rough.

Hitler, 1889-1936

hubris
1999
Chronicles the life of Adolf Hitler and discusses the events that made his rise to power in Germany possible, the affect World War I had on his rule, the reasons his ideas were so popular, and other related topics.

Keystone kids

1990
When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and is faced with the task of uniting a team rife with dissension and prejudice against the new Jewish rookie catcher.

Not a nickel to spare

the Great Depression diary of Sally Cohen
2007
Sally Cohen struggles to cope with not only being poor during the Depression, but also with the growing anti-Jewish feelings in her community.

Snow in August

1998
Eleven-year-old Irish Catholic Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch form a wonderful, if unlikely, friendship in Brooklyn in 1947, but the actions of a group of anti-Semitic thugs soon have them trapped in a spiral of hate and hoping for a miracle.

Hitler, 1936-1945

nemesis
2000
Describes the measures Hitler's troops took to tighten the Nazi grip on the home front without significant resistance from the German people from 1936 to 1945.

The cure

2000
A young boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.

Captain of innocence

France & the Dreyfus affair
1991
Surveys the life, multiple trials, imprisonment, and eventual release of the Jewish French army officer accused of spying for the Germans.

The affair

the case of Alfred Dreyfus
1986
Discusses the celebrated scandal that tore turn-of-the-century France apart.

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