Jewish communities across the Tampa Bay region commemorate the 'Night of Broken Glass'

Brendan Murphy's “History and the Holocaust” seminar has earned him numerous accolades and honors, including the Outstanding Educator Award from the Anne Frank Center. nbsp;(Marist School / Courtesy)Eighty-eight years ago, the Nazi regime coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence in Germany. They arrested hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and killed nearly 100. They also destroyed synagogues and vandalized thousands of Jewish homes and businesses.The riot on the night of Nov. 9, 1938, became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."It's a reference to shattered glass from store windows that littered streets.On Nov. 9, the Jewish Federation of Sarasota will present a lecture with noted Holocaust educator Brendan Murphy of the Bearing Witness Institute at Marist College.He said confronting antisemitism requires more than telling people it's wrong."We have to, for example, ask questions like, 'Where does antisemitism come from,'" he said. "How did these ideas develop? How