Alexander Green

Alexander Green is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto in the Department of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies.

 

Articles by Alexander Green

An Act of Courage

Defiance >> Alexander Green

Sun Oct 11, 2009
Defiance

Most of the Holocaust films Hollywood has produced in the last 20 years present hope in the face of Nazi evil, portraying the heroism of righteous gentiles, whose sympathy and humanity triumph over prejudice. Such films promote building a better world through strengthened relations between Jews and gentiles, but one element is conspicuously absent: courageous Jewish heroes.