Inform students about the rising number of antisemitic incidents in the United States and explore the story of one teacher’s response to an antisemitic incident involving high school students in her community.
This episode of The American Experience examines the role of the United States in the Holocaust, exploring such issues as American antisemitism and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide.
Introduction to Antisemitism, its Past and its Present
This overview helps students understand the long history of hatred and discrimination against Jews and how anti-Judaism was transformed in the nineteenth century into antisemitism.
This PowerPoint for Lesson 1 of the Discussing Contemporary Antisemitism in the Classroom mini-unit comes complete with student-facing slides and teaching notes, and is ready to use in the classroom.
This PowerPoint for Lesson 2 of the Discussing Contemporary Antisemitism in the Classroom mini-unit comes complete with student-facing slides and teaching notes, and is ready to use in the classroom.