Article | “Hitler Is a world problem” – How the Coal Region’s Jewish communities saw the danger in 1933

Article | “Hitler Is a world problem” – How the Coal Region’s Jewish communities saw the danger in 1933

In the spring of 1933, just months after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany, Rabbi Louis Levitsky of Wilkes-Barre, PA stood before the West Side Women’s Club and warned: “Hitler is not a Jewish problem,” Levitsky told the group. “Hitler is a world problem. The attack on the Jews is a danger signal to the rest of the world that a new and active menace to the world’s peace has arisen.” Levitsky in the 1930s Across Pennsylvania’s Coal Region, Jewis…