2. Fact/Statistic: (Source #1) In the Matter of "Faith" (Source #2) A Test of Faith? : Religious Diversity and Accommodation in the European Workplace. (Source #3) Explanation of: Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth and Paul Laurence Dunbar
3. Testimony:
1. (Source #1) READERS of the July "Atlantic" must have found excellent entertainment in Mr. Root 's little essay on "The Age of Faith." His subject is one that we are always interested in -- the question of the real resemblances between seemingly contrasted periods of human history. By a series of ingenious comparisons, he leaves us with the impression that in spite of superficial differences -- of language, of manners, of interests -- one age is not so very different from another. …show more content…
(Source #3) "Defender of the Faith" is a good example of all of these aspects of Roth 's fiction. Roth uses his military experience to give the story an undeniable realism, but sets it at the time when the question of what it meant to be a Jew was most fraught. The Holocaust was known, and becoming more so, but Israel would not be founded until 1948. American Jews were in difficult circumstances. On one hand, they had been spared the direct horrors suffered by European Jews who had been killed in the Nazi concentration camps; on the other, many were recent immigrants, like Sheldon Gross Bart’s father, and had lost relatives to the Holocaust. The American Jewish community was in serious upheaval in 1945, unsure of what should be done to defend the Jewish …show more content…
(Source #1) "Faith" in this sense is growing stronger and keener because more fully aware of its own realm and its own power. We know, as never before, the difference between the things hoped for and the things possessed. We know, as never before, the difference between the things that are seen -- whether with the mind 's eye or the body 's is immaterial -- and the things that are not seen. Faith in the power of love, faith in all the things of the spirit.
2. (Source #2) A test of faith? Religious diversity and accommodation in the European workplace. -- (Cultural diversity and law in association with RELIGARE) 1. Religion in the workplace--Law and legislation-- European Union countries.
3. (Source #3) Roth tackles this question head on, but with profound irony, providing two contesting defenders of the faith. One is Sergeant Nathan Marx, "a veteran of the European theater," and an assimilated Jew. The other is Sheldon Gross Bart, a teenager who embodies many of the clichés about Jews. As soon as Marx arrives in Camp Crowder, Missouri, Gross Bart asks him to change the schedule of their "G.I. party" (barracks cleaning), so that the Jews in the unit can attend religious services. He assumes that Nathan is Jewish because of his name, saying "We thought you—Marx, you know, like Karl Marx. The Marx Brothers. Those guys are all—" Gross Bart leaves the word "Jewish" implied. Notice that Roth chooses to name his ambiguous defender Marx, like the father of Communism, who is considered
3. Testimony:
1. (Source #1) READERS of the July "Atlantic" must have found excellent entertainment in Mr. Root 's little essay on "The Age of Faith." His subject is one that we are always interested in -- the question of the real resemblances between seemingly contrasted periods of human history. By a series of ingenious comparisons, he leaves us with the impression that in spite of superficial differences -- of language, of manners, of interests -- one age is not so very different from another. …show more content…
(Source #3) "Defender of the Faith" is a good example of all of these aspects of Roth 's fiction. Roth uses his military experience to give the story an undeniable realism, but sets it at the time when the question of what it meant to be a Jew was most fraught. The Holocaust was known, and becoming more so, but Israel would not be founded until 1948. American Jews were in difficult circumstances. On one hand, they had been spared the direct horrors suffered by European Jews who had been killed in the Nazi concentration camps; on the other, many were recent immigrants, like Sheldon Gross Bart’s father, and had lost relatives to the Holocaust. The American Jewish community was in serious upheaval in 1945, unsure of what should be done to defend the Jewish …show more content…
(Source #1) "Faith" in this sense is growing stronger and keener because more fully aware of its own realm and its own power. We know, as never before, the difference between the things hoped for and the things possessed. We know, as never before, the difference between the things that are seen -- whether with the mind 's eye or the body 's is immaterial -- and the things that are not seen. Faith in the power of love, faith in all the things of the spirit.
2. (Source #2) A test of faith? Religious diversity and accommodation in the European workplace. -- (Cultural diversity and law in association with RELIGARE) 1. Religion in the workplace--Law and legislation-- European Union countries.
3. (Source #3) Roth tackles this question head on, but with profound irony, providing two contesting defenders of the faith. One is Sergeant Nathan Marx, "a veteran of the European theater," and an assimilated Jew. The other is Sheldon Gross Bart, a teenager who embodies many of the clichés about Jews. As soon as Marx arrives in Camp Crowder, Missouri, Gross Bart asks him to change the schedule of their "G.I. party" (barracks cleaning), so that the Jews in the unit can attend religious services. He assumes that Nathan is Jewish because of his name, saying "We thought you—Marx, you know, like Karl Marx. The Marx Brothers. Those guys are all—" Gross Bart leaves the word "Jewish" implied. Notice that Roth chooses to name his ambiguous defender Marx, like the father of Communism, who is considered