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Learn lesson of 'Skokie'
The author is a Hebrew teacher for
the Niles Township High Schools and is
the coordinator of the High School of
Jewish Studies (Skokie branch).
By ITZHAK HOFFMAN
THE STRUGGLE of the Jewish community and others in Skokie against
the threat of the Nazi march in 1977
has put Skokie on the map of awareness throughout the United States. Now
it has been immortalized on film. We,
even those among us who are supposed
to be more alert than the rest, innocently thought that Jewish hatred in its
epidemic form was a phenomenon of
the past. We believed that with the Holocaust, anti-Semitism had reached its
last murderous peak and later passed
away. So terrible and gruesome was
that last atrocity, so remote from any
logic and human conception, that it
would have been difficult to believe it
had survived in the modern world.
In the 30 years that have passed
since the fires were put out in the
Auschwitz incinerators, we have raised
a whole generation to whom anti-Semitism was only a phenomenon of history. Everywhere around the world the
doors opened up for the Jews. Everywhere, anti-Jewish hostility went into
hiding.
THE WARNING signs of recent
years, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, increase of the KKK and Nazi activities
must force us to raise our antennas
again for fine tuning. We have to awaken our senses and interpret the symp-
toms correctly. They can no longer be
ignored.
What the Skokie situation symbolized
had been cast aside shortly after the
events themselves took place. It passed
like a bad dream which nobody wants
to recall. If the movie “Skokie” did nothing else, it at least brought into focus, throughout many communities
around the country, some serious issues that merit our further examination. The unsatisfactory or unfair
treatment of some of the major characters in the movie version notwithstanding, this picture still speaks
better than thousands of words.
JANET, THE teen-age daughter of
the fictional Feldman family in the
movie, “Skokie,” was portrayed as a
student at Niles East High School. Her
struggle to come to terms with her own
identity suffers as a result of not understanding and not knowing really
what the Holocaust was all about.
While Holocaust study exists in the
Niles Township High Schools (on a
very limited ineffectual basis), and is
offered as a course at the High School
of Jewish Studies at the Mayer Kaplan
JCC, one might have expected a concentrated effort to teach the youngsters of the community about the
Holocaust and its related issues. As
many Skokie residents have already
discovered, being from Skokie makes
one a focus of attention, curiosity and
questions around the country. (I was
asked about it in Israel!)
BETTER EDUCATION about the
Holocaust will enhance understanding
and prevent identity and community
crises which are brought about by a
lack of ability to feel and understand
the issues. That is one way of saying
“Never Again!” but there are other
ways. While Yom Hashoah (The day of
Memorial of the Holocaust), does take
place to a greater or lesser extent in
synagogues, organizations and some
churches in the community, it is more
or less a private individual effort. An
attempt last year to have a villagewide commemoration suffered from
poor attendance.
There are ways to make the statement that Skokie may want to make.
Skokie high schools should offer in
their curriculum a comprehensive
course in the study of the Holocaust.
An elective course as part of the social
studies program can be a step in the
right direction. What has been done until now is simply not enough. Many
public schools around the country have
been teaching the Holocaust; why of
all places not in Skokie?! Skokie can
organize an international conference of
the lessons of the Holocaust. It can
sponsor seminars and workshops on
the Holocaust’s history, causes, effects
and implications.
What lies beyond the movie is not docu-drama or fiction. It is a reality that
has to be faced by actions which express the values, beliefs and quality of
life in the community. Let’s hope that
another movie, “Skokie II,” will not
have to be made.
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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<h3><a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Attempted Nazi March in Skokie online exhibit</a></h3>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Learn lesson of 'Skokie'
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Hoffman, Itzhak
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As part of a discussion of the made-for-television movie "Skokie," a local Hebrew teacher advices a course in the study of the Holocaust to be taught in Skokie schools.
Date
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11/29/1981
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Hoffman, Itzhak
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Skokie Life, Sunday, November 29, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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©Lerner Publications
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isl811129a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
1980s (1980-1989)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
skokie movie
tv movie