Nazis in Newark
By: Warren Grover.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: German American Bund -- History; Nazis -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History -- 20th century; National socialism -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History -- 20th century; Anti-Nazi movement -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Jews -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography; Minorities -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Newark (N.J.) -- Ethnic relations; Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "After Hitler came to power in 1933, Nazis established organizations in major American cities to propagate their racial doctrines. Newark, New Jersey, with its considerable ethnic mix of Jews, Germans, Italians, Irish, and African Americans, was a primary target. Throughout the thirties and up to America's entrance into World War II, Newark's Nazis worked to convert the city's sizeable German American population to their cause. Their efforts did not go unopposed.

Nazis in Newark is a comprehensive chronical of local Jewish resistance, both organizational and private, and it also records the efforts of Newark's other ethnic groups to fight the Nazi presence that shook Newark during these years. At the center of Warren Grover's account is the story of two unlikely bedfellows: S. William Kalb, a physician who led the Newark Division of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, and Nat Arno, a prizefighter and gang member who led the Minutemen.

Together they forged an alliance against Nazism, employing propaganda, public relations, and physical assaults. Among the extraordinary events that resulted were Jewish prizefighters who had protected Newark crime boss Longie Zwillman's bootleg whiskey shipments turning their attention to stopping the Nazis after Prohibition ended in 1933"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-349) and index.