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Episodes tagged "Anti-Semitism": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Anti-Semitic Laws and Lawbreakers in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
    date November, 1942 to May, 1943map Africa, Outside UStags Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Tunisia, historical memory, Africa

    On November 23, 1942, German soldiers arrested prominent Jewish leaders across Tunisia. When Moises Burgel, the President of the Tunisian Jewish community, was arrested, it marked the beginning of the Holocaust in North Africa. By the end of November, Nazi Germany had occupied all of Tunisia and enacted anti-Semitic laws in addition to the Vichy laws already in place. According to the sources found...

  2. A Daughter Learns of Anti-Semitism and Heroism in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
    date November, 1942 to May, 1943map Africa, Outside UStags Anti-Semitism, historical memory, Holocaust, Tunisia

    Over 70 years ago, Faiza Abdul-Wahab’s father, Khaled, rescued several Jewish families from German troops occupying the town of Mahdia, Tunisia. After the occupation commenced in November 1942, Nazi and Vichy leaders in Tunisia enacted a set of anti-Semitic laws similar to those in Europe. According to the sources found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archive, these laws...

  3. The Lynching of Leo Frank
    date August 17, 1915map Cobb, Georgiatags Anti-Semitism, Crime/Violence, Lynching

    On August 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman awoke to 25 armed men storming into the jail he was being held at in Milledgeville, Georgia. Despite faulty and clear mishandling of evidence, as well as forced confessions from many witnesses, Frank was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan, a young girl that was employed in his factory. However, influenced...

  4. A Jewish Rebuke to Confederate Anti-Semitism in Richmond
    date March 27, 1863map HENRICO, Virginiatags Religion, Civil War, Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Richmond, Confederacy

    On March 27, 1863, Reverend M. J. Michelbacher, rabbi of the Bayth Ahabah synagogue in Richmond, delivered a sermon on a day of prayer declared by Jefferson Davis. Michelbacher was a prominent Jewish leader in the Confederate capital.  Although he had moved from Philadelphia in 1846, he was a fervent supporter of the Confederate cause even prior to secession. In the sermon, Michelbacher responded...