Wednesday, March 15, 7:00 PM

Northwest Premiere

USA, 1999, 57 min.

Lori Cheatle, Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher and Martin D. Toub Directors/Producers

From Swastika to Jim Crow

In the 1930s when Hitler came to power, German-Jewish professors were expelled from prominent faculty positions. Likewise in America, these “refugee professors” encountered domestic anti-Semitism.  Shunned by most American universities during the Depression, black colleges in the then-segregated South became an unlikely setting for their employment.  Mutual sympathy as targets of discrimination helped them forge amazing and long-lasting bonds with colleagues and students who recount the profound impact these professors had on their lives, especially during Civil Rights.  A fascinating documentary about strangers in a strange land.

Special Guests: Filmmakers Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (From Swastika to Jim Crow), Prof. Thaddeus Spratlen, Co-chair African American/Jewish Coalition for Justice, in conversation with Terre Rybovich, Executive Director, Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity

Presented by Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity and co-sponsored by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society

Shown with Antiracist  

For a list of related readings available at Tree of Life Books and Judaica and through the American Jewish Committee, please visit our SJFF 2000 Reading List.