As the civil rights of Jews were systematically being stripped away in 1930s Berlin, one young rabbi refused to be silent. His name was Joachim Prinz. Uncowed by Nazi monitoring and repeated arrests, Prinz continued to let his voice be heard, urging Jews to leave Germany. Finally expelled from the country in 1937, Prinz himself arrived in the United States and was horrified by the racism he found. As rabbi of Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, NJ, and later as president of the American Jewish Congress, Prinz became a leader in the civil rights movement, even speaking at the 1963 March on Washington. This beautiful portrait of an extraordinary man is not to be missed.

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