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Monday, September 14, 2026
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Speaking Engagements
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Following the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies because of their alleged proclivity to arson. In the years that followed, the stereotype of the Jewish arsonist spread throughout the United States, appearing in fire insurance manuals, cartoons, songs, and silent films.Jewish Firebugs presents the first detailed exploration of both the accusations and the realities of Jewish arson from the late 1800s to the early 1920s. Drawing on such diverse records as fire department reports, insurance records, newspapers, trial transcripts, and humor journals, Jeffrey Marx delves into the social forces that created and then sensationalized the caricature of the Jewish arsonist, investigating how and why Jews became the only racial/ethnic group to be targeted this way in the United States. The book critically assesses how these antisemitic representations were solidified in the American imagination–from the spread of jokes and cartoons, to vaudeville performances across the country.In addition, Marx also investigates the various factors that led to arson criminal activity in Jewish neighborhoods, the unique way that Jewish “arson gangs” were organized, and how the fire insurance companies actively supported their efforts. Jewish Firebugs illustrates the socioeconomic realities of Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the nineteenth century, and details what the Jewish arsonist trope reveals about the dynamics of antisemitism in the United States.
Jeffrey A. Marx is an Independent Scholar and the author of Smoothing the Jew: Abie the Agent and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Speaking Engagements
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Virtual
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Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw for a deeper look at the new exhibition Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, an examination of one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance and historical preservation during the Holocaust: the creation of the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Led by historian and activist Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, a clandestine group of Jewish scholars, educators, journalists, religious leaders, artists, and youth activists committed themselves to recording Jewish life as it unfolded under Nazi rule. Over three years, they gathered nearly 35,000 documents, including testimonies, diaries, letters, and underground newspapers.
Will These Words Reach You? commemorates the 80th anniversary of the archive's recovery. Join Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz, Deputy Director for Programs at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; Sara Softness, the Museum's Director of Curatorial Affairs; and Tamar Rabinowitz, the Museum's Senior Curator, for a discussion about the process of curating the exhibition and the Oyneg Shabes Archive's continued importance.
Register HERE.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
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Join author Ruth Stitt as she shares her latest novel, When the World was Broken.
Based on a true family story from the Holocaust, her third self-published book is based on letters between her American grandmother and her three Jewish cousins in Berlin. The correspondence continued from 1938 to 1942, chronicling the cousins' desperation to escape Nazi Germany and her grandmother's diligent, frustrating efforts to rescue them.
In a time of rising antisemitism, Ruth believes this book is a timely contribution to Holocaust literature and hopes it will open many conversations about standing against this type of evil and hatred in our time.
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX 78231
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