Key Selling Points:
- For over 40 years, author Jerry Faivish has collected 10,000 posters and cartoons from all over the world focusing on Jewish history and culture, with a large section focusing on antisemitic hate and propaganda from the start of the twentieth century through the years of the Holocaust.
- An impactful book for teens that provides insights about hate and antisemitism, opening up a conversation about what is propaganda, why it is used, and how detrimental and effective it can be.
- Can Posters Kill examines why and how the Nazis used cartoons and posters to cultivate hate against the Jews and other groups who were targeted in the lead-up and during World War II.
- The book features a powerful, curated collection of hate propaganda, an overview of antisemitism, and the essential role posters and cartoons played during the Holocaust.
- A retired lawyer, Jerry Faivish has lectured in Canada and internationally on the subject of antisemitic propaganda, and he has been asked by museums and universities, including Harvard, to house and archive his collection of posters. Co-author Kathryn Cole has been writing and editing books for young readers for over forty years.
- Will appeal to teenagers fluent in the language of visual media. Durable printing with french flaps.
How did Hitler and the Nazi Party convince millions of people that the murder of Jews during the Holocaust was not only justifiable but correct? What can we learn from one of the most horrific times in history?
Can Posters Kill? uses rare, historical posters to take readers on a visual journey from medieval anti-Jewish artwork to the venomous Nazi propaganda of the Second World War. These posters show how powerful propaganda can be as a tool for spreading hate: how repetition, vivid imagery, and urgent messaging promote intense emotional reactions—fear, distrust, loyalty, revulsion—that can be used to create a coordinated campaign to impact the way we think. By understanding the visual language of propaganda from the past, we can learn to recognize and resist messages of hate—an essential skill in a digital world where information is spread in seconds.
A collection of WWII propaganda posters show how the Nazi party spread antisemitism and justified the murder of Jews in the Holocaust.
