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3) 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
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"No longer the exclusive province of the far right and far left, anti-semitism finds a home in identity politics and the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of "America first" isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred increasingly allowed into modern political discussion, anti-semitism has been migrating toward the mainstream in dangerous ways, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hateful actions and rhetoric against Jews in the United States are increasing. These incidences are not motivated by individual conflicts, but rather by a form of prejudice known as anti-Semitism. It is based on an irrational conspiracy theory that blames Jews, as a group, for all of society's problems. No matter how illogical this theory is, it has been the rationale for discrimination, oppression, and violence against Jews throughout history."--...
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
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on "Jewish space lasers" and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Journalists Shane Burley and Ben Lorber present a sorely-needed progressive and intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism? From online trolling of Jews by the 'alt-right' to synagogue shootings by white nationalists to the spread of QAnon and George Soros conspiracy theories, antisemitism is a fixture of U.S. politics today. Its rise is part and parcel of growing exclusionary nationalist movements - putting...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Summer, 1958. After her father's death, Ruth Robb's family moves from New York City to Atlanta. Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can't be both, and decides...
Author
Series
Bernard Martin novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair, two murders reveal the darker side of human nature. After an infant boy is found dead in the town of Nancy in historical Lorraine, France, and the townspeople, thinking a Jew was responsible for the murder, whip up a frenzy of anti-Semitism, it is up to Bernard Martin to find the true killer before a vigilante mob embarks on a spree of racial violence.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...
Author
Publisher
Harvest, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For Jews today, the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, a vicious assault that killed more Jews in one day than any time since the Holocaust, has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. The Jewish community woke to an unrecognizable new reality on the 7th, witnessing first the horror and sheer brutality of the atrocities in Israel, followed immediately by the stark and unprecedented rise in antisemitism in its aftermath. In the wake...
18) Blacks And Jews
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Scholars and critics probe the history and psychology of victimization shared between Blacks and Jews and their exploitation by the media. The faultline between Blacks and Jews is one of the most visible symbols of America's racial divide. This film, made collaboratively by Jewish and Black filmmakers, goes behind the headlines and the rhetoric to try to heal the misunderstanding and mistrust. Blacks & Jews was acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As two brothers emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism, one chooses America and the other Israel/Palestine. The generations move forward in the twentieth century, from New York to Brighton Beach and Los Angeles, as children and grandchildren assimilate into a new culture. A sweeping tale of love, faith and tradition, Odessa, Odessa reveals how the mysterious ties that hold a family together can help them survive the heartache of separation...
20) Defamation
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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 and traveling to places like Auschwitz and Brooklyn, Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today.
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