Jewish Identity Research Paper

Decent Essays
It is the same with any ethnic group or someone’s culture that society doesn’t understand, so society makes it hard for any other ethnic group to maintain their beliefs. Why is it hard for the Jewish people to maintain identity so difficult in the United States? All different cultures in the United States feel pressured to continue holding onto their cultural heritage. For the Jewish people this is hard because they highly value their ethnicity. Some Jewish people feel out of place and also excluded due to their culture, and some choose to resemble what is the "norm" and in doing so they can lose a sense of their Jewish identity . So many people want to come to the United States for a better life. Although that may cause them to make changes

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The Hasidic Jews of Williamsburg have their very own distinct culture that they have created because the Rebbe lead the way for them after World War II. The Pious Ones by Harvey Arden describes the way of life for Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg. In this article, it was described that the Rebbe lead them into their culture after a hard time in concentration camps when they lost all hope of their religion. The Rebbe helped develop Hasidic culture using the elements of culture. For example, during World War II, many Hasidic Jews lost their artistic expression through clothing.…

    • 317 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Within the time preceding and during the holocaust there were instances of Jewish resistance, though they seemed few and far between. The instances of resistance were primarily behind the scenes and subliminal, mainly consisting of passive resistance to segregation. In addition to this there was outright resistance though very limited primarily during deportations and city cleansing. The final form of resistance that was practiced was the act of resisting death through hiding and escape. These three ideas were gathered from the two readings, Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning and Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan.…

    • 1333 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The US is facing a problem right now that make a lot of people debate about what is right or what is wrong in taking immigration. Thousands of immigrant have entered the US by many ways such as crossing border illegally, staying legally through visa but never come back to their original country when the visa expired .The number is continue to rise without stopping that make a significant effect on American life. Would you rather stay in a poor country with no hope or live in another rich country with higher standard of living in every aspect and a brand new future is waiting for you? The answer is simple that crossed thousand, millions of these immigrant’s mind.…

    • 199 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Having their whole world changed was hard enough for these immigrant…

    • 838 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As hard as their live is as a migrant worker in the United States, it still is better than back where they lived. Although I found this hard to imagine at first, I began to realize that for many migrants they are making a rational choice. As one person in our group pointed out, even though it seems like they might be better off not coming to the United States, they are not going to sit in their homes without work and starve to death. They are going to try to actively pursue a better life, even if it is only slightly better. The United States is often presented as “the land of opportunity,” however, that does not apply so much to the migrant workers.…

    • 1083 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Especially, since the U.S is where people come to migrate from…

    • 1397 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jewish Women during the Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the darkest eras in world history. It was an extermination of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. Every Jew, regardless of gender, was equally a victim in the Holocaust. Men, women and children suffered slow and painful deaths of starvation and cruelty.…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Heroes of the Holocaust The holocaust was a horrific period that was all about WWII and Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was looking to create an Aryan Race which, in his eyes, was the perfect race. As time passed, he and his Nazi regime created the Final Solution. This plan included the decimation of the Jewish population.…

    • 1054 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Race is, according to Merriam-webster.com (2015), “any one of the groups that human beings can be divided into based on shared distinctive physical traits”. One’s race is something that is usually noticed right away. Oftentimes, race has traits that are visibly distinguishable. These distinguishable traits include skin color, which is the most visible distinguished trait regarding race, hair texture, and other facial features. When individuals come from interracial marriages, which is a child born from parents of different races, these physical traits can become blurred (Healey & O’Brien, 2015, p. 16-18).…

    • 1399 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    DACA Argumentative Essay

    • 1157 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Those people are driven to be successful and that’s what the country needs. They’ll have their kids go to school and push them to be successful because they didn’t go through all the trouble of illegally crossing the border to not work for a better life. A lot of people weren’t and wouldn’t be safe in the country they’re coming from. They could be living in poverty and fear, so they see going to the US as a way of collecting themselves and making a new life for them and their children. Many people from other countries want a higher quality life than what they had before.…

    • 1157 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Every day thousands of people want to come to the United States for a better life. The United States is known for giving people a chance for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However many find that the dream is much easier dreamt than a reality in the making. For people born outside of the United States the first step to making that dream come true is to immigrate. That is where, for many, the dream comes to an abrupt halt.…

    • 556 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever thought of why people migrate to the U.S? Like most of us know immigrants migrate here in search for work, and to fulfill their dream which we all know of; the American dream. Immigration in the U.S has always been a major problem, but what people don’t get is that without immigrants America’s society as a whole would be much different. Everything would be different like; customs and traditions, and less agricultural jobs. On the other hand, illegal people usually come to the U.S for a better life because in other countries having one job is not enough to support a family; moreover, the wages immigrants earn aren’t enough they get payed at a low salary.…

    • 1039 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jewish Religious Beliefs

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Jewish people who lived at the beginning of the Common Era saw their religious faith as part of their daily living. Several of their daily activities were therefore established around their religious rituals, which was believed to have been past-on by their ancestors, such as the fulfillment of the mitzvoth, or commandments that are found within their most sacred document, The Torah. Jesus, who lived in this territory called Israeli-Palestine, also would have contemplated the religious rituals and events of the Jewish people. This particular name first appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area "Palaistinē" (Παλαιστίνη). Originally, some say that it derived from the Semitic word “peleshet.”…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    One way that Judaism has spread and will spread is that since there is a lot of Judaism around the world already all of their children will most likely become Jewish as well. Unless something very bad happens then the Judaism population will only become only bigger. The many powerful kings have also built many Jewish temples so the more people that see these temples may convert because the Jewish people are so faithful. Also many historical circumstances have made Judaism popular around the world converting more and more people to Judaism. People also believe that Jewish people traded and traveled so they had to have spread their culture while they were trading and…

    • 115 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Judaism is one of the oldest religions that is still widely practiced today. Growing up, I had a few Jewish friends and I was always fascinated with the religious traditions and the reverence for history. For this project, I was interested in learning how a Jewish college student practices their religion. I interviewed Michael Falkenstein, a Jewish 21-year-old college senior. I also interviewed Hanna Taft who is also Jewish and a 21-year-old college senior.…

    • 1815 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays