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[1996]
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On October 12, 1958, the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, was blown open by fifty sticks of dynamite. The shock wave that reverberated across the nation that night jolted this city "too busy to hate," a booster's town scrambling to make itself the economic hum of what would become the New South. The explosion also shattered the illusions of a comfortable Reform Jewish congregation, for whom assimilation and acceptance had been...
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2005
Description
Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
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2014.
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"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...
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2019.
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Since its inception in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has seen numerous boycotts against Israel in an effort to encourage withdrawal from what supporters of the movement consider to be occupied territories, along with recognition of the rights of Arab-Palestinian citizens and refugees. Supporters claim that Israel is an apartheid state, but this assertion is hotly contested. Many critics of BDS claim that the movement...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Johanna, a German girl, learns on a trip to Israel that her family's successful clothing store was originally owned by a Jewish family and was acquired by her grandfather through the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazi regime.
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2023.
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After an African American boy dies at a house party from an apparent drug overdose, Lilach, when racial tensions in the community are ignited and her son Adam is implicated in the crime, begins to question everything she knows about him, wondering if her quiet, reclusive boy could be a killer.
90) Joseph Goebbels
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[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Relates the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his role in formulating Hitler's policy of exterminating the Jewish people.
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2003
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"In the years following the Holocaust, the Jewish community in Germany was tiny, decimated by the Nazis and shrinking fast as most survivors died or emigrated. But once the Berlin Wall fell, the German government invited Soviet-bloc Jews to come make a new life in prosperous and democratic Germany." "Exodus to Berlin tells the story of that migration. Since 1989 more than 100,000 Jews have accepted Germany's invitation, filling Berlin and the rest...
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2021.
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"Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multi-generational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
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At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she become what's now know as an "unaccompanied minor." Gerda's story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg’s life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. It's the summer of 1967, and her big sister has eloped with a young man from India following Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that says banning interracial marriage is unconstitutional in all 50 states. Ariel's Jewish parents don't approve, and soon, her sister disappears into the bohemian New York City of the 1960s. Back home...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Taking joy in suffering is more human than we'd like to admit. The cruelty of the Trump administration's policies and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets are intimately connected. Shared cruelty and the delight it brings are critical moments of connection for white supremacists, a fact that is not new. Adam Serwer has been chronicling our political landscape for the last decade. He is one of the most resonant voices of our time, relentless...
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2020.
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An exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of one unforgettable family as they navigate the evolving social and political landscape from Crockett’s Island, their family retreat off the coast of Maine. Blake masterfully lays bare the memories and mistakes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In this award-winning historical saga, passionate young lovers in a Jewish ghetto rise to become the foremost financial dynasty in the world. It is the turn of the eighteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to establish themselves in the cramped and restricted Judengasse. But when Meir's talents as a novice banker catch the attention of a German prince, Meir is suddenly afforded entrée into the...