Anti-Semitism in the USA Before World War 2: video worksheets, differentiated

Comprehensive, thorough, 19-minute documentary really drills down into a grim and overlooked passage of history, covering: capitalism AND communism blamed on Jews, socialist and anarchist groups and immigration from Europe, Peter Stuyvesant; pogroms and Jewish immigrants, the Depression of 1893, banking, Labour Unions, Samuel Gompers and Daniel DeLeon were both Jewish by background. Yiddish newspapers, the “Uprising of the 20,000”, Clara Leimlich. Leo Frank, the Anti-Defamation League; Ku Klux Klan revival. WW1 and German (Austrian) Jews. The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Academic quotas. Oh dear: Henry Ford, The Dearborn Independent, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The International Jew translated, popularity in Nazi Germany. Attacks on FDR and Eleanor, “New Deal”. Oh dear: Father Charles Coughlin, the “Silver Shirts”, Social Justice, radio show cancelled. The America First Committee. Oh dear: Charles Lindbergh. Heinz Spanknöbel.

17 questions for the 19-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. No slack time! Great subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated. Creates a great intro / revision / summary resource. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Anti-Semitism in the USA Before the World War 2” (sic).

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