Types of Resistance During The Holocaust “To the Jewish, fighting and survival were the same” (“Encyclopedia of The Holocaust”, 1,265). As most people know during the Holocaust Jewish people and others were persecuted by the Nazis and their supporters. The people who were persecuted would often resist in an attempt to survive the cruelty, these are the different ways they resisted. One of the main places that they resisted was in the ghettos. “Some ghettos like the one in Warsaw were not…
During World War II, approximately six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. The 1930s through 1940s was extremely heartbreaking for Jews and their families. Before the Holocaust Jews had normal lives, they never expected their lives to dramatically change personally and their outlook on the world. Before the early 1930s, Jews had good paying jobs and families, but when Adolf Hitler was chancellor there were a lot of new laws enacted to discriminate against the Jews. Everyone in…
Many have faced the problem of procrastination. While some view it as a waste of time, others view it as a logical course of action. Jewish author, and screenwriter, Michael Chabon was born in and grew up in a close and planned community and was raised mostly by his single mother (Michael Chabon Biography). In his Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Chabon addresses many broad topics including the idea of escapism. Through the novella The Amazing Adventures…
From 10 A.D. to 55 A.D. Jews faced constant persecution. Being a small community, they could never withstand the large Roman population. The Romans never had the Jews’ best interests in mind. There were several events that lead to the revolt from the Jews. The Jewish population during this time were entirely justified in their revolt. After withstanding several years of religious persecution, unjust punishment and actions against, and the murder of far too many Jews, the Jews led a rebellion…
There are a few literary critics that evaluate The Handmaid’s Tale to be an anti-Christian book that propagates prejudice towards Christians. These critics take the negative portrayal of Gilead’s “Christian” authority to represent all Christians. In David Robertson’s piece on The Handmaid’s Tale, he says “The Handmaid's Tale is the kind of programme made about Christians that anti-Semites would make about Jews. It demonizes 'the other.' Despite the constant citation of Scripture, the portrayal…
academy’s world wide. The war even took on spiritual dimension for the nation of Israel, who had mostly secular motivations until that point. However, what is perhaps the most interesting is the political and strategic choices and consequences of the war. The dynamics of power in the Middle East were forever changed by a few simple choices. The set up for the war can be illustrated as a two player simultaneous game between Israel and Egypt. Egypt currently lead bu Gamal Abdel Nasser was the de…
This summary of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod will provide an examination of the Palestinian Diaspora in relation to the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Part One of this book is entitled “Places of Memory”, which consists of historical perspectives of scholars, such as Chapter 1’s article by Susan Slyomovics, related to Nakba through the memories of refugees in the town of Qula: “A different history historiography, grounded in testimonial…
Shylock shows the intriguing conflict between the Christians and the Jews in Venice. Shylock immediately shows his hatred for Antonio, as he says in an aside, “I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis”. This shows his loathing for Antonio based on that fact that he dislikes Christians and highlighting the conflict between Christians and Jews in Venice, furthermore, Antonio is seen as a rival in his business, this further emphasizes the…
Produced in 1939 by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Light Ahead highlights a transition away from past superstitious beliefs toward Jewish Enlightenment thinking. The film is set in a small village of Glupsk, which serves to portray Jewish shtetl life as a juxtaposition to big city life. In his film, Ulmer pushes for the furtherance of Jewish Enlightenment through underlining stark contrasts in opinion between religious leaders of the village and Mendele, a book peddler and Jewish Enlightenment thinker.…
all places of the world. The term is derived from an ancient Greek word which means " to scatter about". But the term has been particularly referred to the historical mass movements of involuntary nature like that of the expulsion of the Jews from Israel, the trading of Africans as slaves into North America, the displacement…