Snow in August is a good example about the prejudice and racism in the 1940’s. Pete Hamill has truly done a marvelous job at depicting the effects of WWII on an anti Jewish town, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn was in the midst of religious and racial turmoil. Hamill describes how ripped apart this n...

This period of time had so much impact over every generation of human beings that lived and will live after it. Changing our perspective of the world, our political and moral schemes and most of all it changed the significance of love and power. These and many other repercussions the holocaust left ...