by James Sturm
In the 1920s, The Stars of David, a Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town to play local squads. They all traditional sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons. When financial difficulties threaten to end their season, they cast their lot with a Chicago promoter, Victor Paige. After seeing the German silent film Der Golem, he has one of the Stars of David don the costume. Using newspaper articles and broadsides, Paige aggressively trumpets the coming of the Golem and proceeds to transform a baseball game into a mythical pageant. He fills the stadium but also stokes the flames of anti-Semitism.
SC, 112pg, PC