Ahaziah of Israel

“Bent,” a play written by Martin Sherman, focused on the LGBTQ community’s perspective of their lives during the Holocaust. The play is about the lives of gay men who are living in a homophobic era under the rule of Hitler in Berlin, Germany in 1934. These homosexuals were being tormented, hated, and forced to live on concentration camps because of their sexuality. This hatred of gays or homosexuals was highly expected because during this time period of Nazi Germany, Hitler would persecute…

Human rights are offered by most countries but it wasn’t the same a few decades ago. During the Holocaust, many Jewish people were discriminated, abused, and slaughtered as well as being brutally tortured in countless ways by the Nazis. From being burned alive, to dying of hunger and frigid coldness, there were no possible signs of virtue. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, shares with the world the transfixing experiences as a victim of the horrid event . The holocaust, a systematic mass…

experienced in the book “Home to Stay, One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel”. The book is based on emails the author wrote to his family back in the United States. This book commences with an American family in Los Angeles, whose roots lie deep in Jewish culture and religion. Daniel Gordis is a Jewish professor who is invited to study in Israel for a…

One of the heated and contentious conflicts over the last 50 years is without a doubt the Arab-Israeli conflict. With this cauldron of ethnic and religious nationalism, self-determination and territorial disputes it is no wonder why this conflict is so heated. But if one were to examine the impacts of clashing nationalisms between Arabs and Palestinians as well as the rise and Pan-Arabism on the conflict from 1967 to 1993, one will see how the modern state of the Arab-Israeli conflict was formed…

In the Seventeenth Century many philosophers were enlightening the world with their various views and ontological arguments. Baruch Spinoza was no different. Spinoza was born in 1632 in Amsterdam and grew up in a Jewish community where he was led to be a rabbi. At the age of twenty-four he was banned from his community for his radical views and was also later banned from a Christian community for those same opinions (Nadler, “Baruch Spinoza”). Spinoza came to be influenced and well educated in…

This historical investigation seeks to evaluate and compare the factors influencing the relationships and discussions between France and Britain during the Suez Crisis and thereby provoked them to commit military force to the region. The mainbody will look at the differences and similarities in Britain's and France's intentions in the Middle East, the internal situation (mainly in Britain), Nassers actions, public opinion in Western Europe as well as American and UN policies on the crisis. In…

Living through inexplicable horror may cause one to have problems expressing themselves, but conveying a message to avoid future injustice is important when portraying the unimaginable. From 1933 to 1945, about six million Jews were killed brutally in concentration camps. Adolf Hitler's attempt to exterminate the religion failed for there were numerous survivors who constantly have trouble explaining what happened. However, no words or languages are strong enough to accurately describe the…

An Analysis of the Plot in The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Hannah, the main character in the novel The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, wants nothing to do with her heritage, until a sudden transformation shows her the importance of history, and the importance of family. In the novel, Hannah is transported back in time to the Holocaust in an unknown concentration camp, where she forgets her modern knowledge and lives the life of a girl from that time named Chaya, which is her Hebrew name…

Dehumanization Can Change Everything Being Jewish or being at a concentration camp is like living hell. “Night” by Elie Wiesel was punished in 1960. The book was mainly about this twelve year old boy who was taken from his old life to go to a concentration camp. He lost his family, and all he has left is his father. He has to see so much dehumanizing things throughout this book. Dehumanization is one huge theme throughout this book. The concentration camp can turn you from being the old you…

According to Anxiety.org, a website that delves into humanities mental health issues, “some studies place the prevalence of PTSD in the Holocaust Survivor communities between 46% and 55%” (). The Holocaust was a very traumatizing experience, where many many Jews became victims to dehumanization. This is understood in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, in which he explains how many Jews were made into monsters or only cared for themselves as a result of their experiences. “The fact that Jews can regain…