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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: 5,000 high schoolers watched a new play about the 1933 Christie Pits Riot: what did they learn?
Description: For the past six weeks, thousands of high school students from around Toronto have gone on a special field trip back in time. They’ve attended an immersive outdoor play about antisemitism in 1933 Toronto, when growing racial tensions between local Nazi supporters and Jewish immigrants boiled over at a baseball game at Willowvale Park, now known now as Christie Pits.
The ensuing street brawls lasted for six hours, wounding dozens of people and prompting the mayor of the day to clamp down on hate symbols by banning the display of swastikas.
The creators of the new play hope that by...