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Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left, and on what can be done about it. When newsreels depicting the depredations of the Holocaust were shown in movie theaters to a horrified American public immediately after World War II, it was believed...
6) Spiral
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A look at the rise of anti-Semitism and assaults against Jews in present-day France.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family--the Rothschilds--became a lightning rod for the conspiracy theories of the last two centuries, and how those theories are still very much alive today"--
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies....
10) Defamation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intent on shaking up the ultimate "sacred cow" for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative--and at times irreverent--quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas including his friend, Teresa's, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah; then someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, and Teresa comes up with a way to show support her friend--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, investigates a local kid's disappearance, a possible UFO invasion, and the Bermuda Triangle, all while dealing with his community's anti-Semitism"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This astonishing exploration of the dark side of Christianity follows former priest James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Carroll, a National Book Award winner, is a practicing Catholic whose search for the truth leads him to confront persecution and violence in the name of God – today and in the Church’s past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries: from the Emperor Constantine’s vision of the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Renowned and beloved as a prize-winning novelist, Dara Horn is often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture--and increasingly in response to recent waves of deadly anti-Semitic attacks. Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these striking essays, Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and her own family...
18) Indignation
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Romanian
Description
The chronicles of a young theatre director's efforts to stage an accurate re-enactment of the Odessa Massacre, in which Romanian soldiers slaughtered tend of thousands of Ukrainian Jews, despite the municipal government's attempt to censor the director's efforts. Her choice angers a city official who threatens to close the production because of its anti-Romanian take on history. However, the reaction to the staged play is something that neither anticipated....
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