Ahaziah of Israel

the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today (“Guide: Why are Israel and the Palestinians fighting over Gaza”). In 1948,…

The book Night is written by Elie Wiesel. He tells about his experience in the concentration camps during WWII. The holocaust was a terrible event that took the lives of many Jews. In the novel three reoccurring symbols define and clarify Elie Wiesel’s struggle to maintain faith in his benevolent God. The first reoccurring symbol in Night is night. Bible begins with creation, God’s first act is to create light and dispel darkness. Night always occurs when suffering is at its worst. Night…

“The holocaust is very much alive. The wounds are still there. The scars are still there. The influence is still there”- Avner Shalev. Although some argue that the Jews created the Holocaust story to get sympathy and to promote themselves, many believe that the holocaust was an actual event that it should not be denied due to the fact that it is prone to happen again, it was one of the biggest misfortune that ever happened, and why do people deny the holocaust. Many people assume that since the…

Chapter 4 begins when the Jews had just arrived at Buna. The day after arriving the prisoners went through medical examination. The doctors merely wanted to know if the prisoners were in good health. However, the dentists were looking for gold crowns. Elie himself had a gold crown and his number was written down. The Jews were assigned to labor units. Elie and his father were assigned to a warehouse for electrical equipment. Elie avoided having his gold crown removed by pretending to be ill.…

What is antisemitism? It is the hatred of Jewish people. Anti-semitism has not just been around for the last one hundred years; it has been around since the medieval times. Many laws were passed to isolate and persecute Jews in the medieval period (The Holocaust Explained). Jewish people were seen as a threat to Christians. The laws passed did not allow Jews to own land (The Holocaust Explained). Because of being prohibited from owning land, they could not become farmers. Also, another…

The Holocaust was a tragic event that happened during World war 2. It killed over 6 million Jews. Condition were terrible and Jews suffered in the ghettos and camps. There were revolts in the camps and ghettos. In the Warsaw ghetto they took a stand for what they believe in.In September 1939 after the invasion of Poland over 400,000 Jews in the capital Warsaw were put in 1 square mile of the city. This was the ghetto. Over 83,000 people died from starvation and disease. This was the largest…

Movies and books have been around for many, many years, and books go back to the start of time. Some people have taken a famous book and made into a picture show, or as we know it today, a movie. However movies can only be so long. Producers have to take away and add stories from the book to fit it in about 2 hours. Many of the movies keep the main story line, but sometimes producers of the show really switch it up. The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, was written about a Jewish girl who is…

The Maltreatment of the Jewish Imagine being forced to live with the fear of being punished or beaten at any second. That is what life was like for the Jews in concentration camps. They were forced to work long hours if they did not get sent to a killing center first. This means that the concentration camp was the better option, which is really bad because of how the Jews were treated. They were also forced to lose their identity as humans for the sake of the Nazi’s protection. There are many…

The Jewish museum follows a model of three major themes that run throughout Jewish history. One of the themes is tradition and the reinterpretation of traditions. We have seen this in our class when it came to the Rabbinate's & Karaites, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, and the different Rabbi interpretations or the Torah, Talmud, or Mishnah such as Rabbi Rashi or Rabbi Akiva. Throughout the museum, there were copies of the Torah in different structures such as the scroll made of parchment…

World War II was a tragic time in history when millions of people lost their lives in a war that caused so much destruction. During the war the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland were persecuted and killed for their identity as Jews. In Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, we are shown a glimpse of the past during the horrors of World War II through the lives of three fictional characters Misha, Janina and Uncle Shepsel. During the war the Jewish people living in Warsaw, Poland were stripped of their…