Older Readers
Can Posters Kill? Antisemitic Propaganda and World War II.
By Jerry Faivish and Kathryn Cole.
Oct. 2025. 100p. illus. Second Story, paper, $22.95 (9781772604290). Gr. 6–10. 940.53022.
This unique offering, an annotated collection of archival anti-Jewish propaganda posters, has several cross-curricular applications. The author, the son of Holocaust survivors, individually analyzes more than 30 banners, movie promotions, and posters. These range from a medieval manuscript to massproduced notices widely distributed throughout countries in Europe (not just Germany but also France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Austria, Serbia, and Ukraine), the Soviet Union, and the U.S., dating from the 1890s Dreyfus Affair through post-WWII. Full-page reproductions face full-page commentaries: accessible paragraphs set up social and historic context, explain imagery and symbols, and interpret details such as word choice, font, the use of…
