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This is a free virtual program.  Please contact Alison Rivlin at 908-889-8800 x260 or [email protected] for Zoom link.

Newark Minutemen, a 1930s fictionalized true story about Jewish American boxers backed by the FBI and Mafia who fight American Nazis when no one else will, follows the forbidden love affair between Jewish boxer Yael Newman and American Nazi Krista Brecht. The Nazi Party is on the rise, led by the charismatic and dangerous Führer Fritz Kuhn, the self-styled American Hitler. While the Party is planning their biggest expansion ever, a young Jewish boxer fights for a militia formed by the FBI and run by prominent Jewish gangsters. Proud Partner of the Jewish Book Council.

This book has been optioned for a movie.  Read about it here!