American Jews

Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, and Joseph (whose tribe was isolated into the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh). The vast majority of the general population of the Northern Kingdom were extradited to old Assyria (2 Kings 17:6). A significant number of the Jews who stayed in the land intermarried with individuals from Cutha, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim who had been sent by the Assyrian ruler to possess Samaria (2 Kings 17:24; Ezra 4:2– 11). Therefore, the story goes, the ten northern tribes of Israel…

On the night of November 9th, 1938, the Nazis placed a series of massive coordinated attacks on the Jews throughout the German Reich. This incident was known as The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht. The Night of Broken Glass was one of the many brutal and tragic events that the Jews suffered through during Hitler’s power. Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, schools, and lives were lost during this ferocious attack. Kristallnacht will forever be remembered as a night that will not be…

friendship with his father when he served as California Representative and worked to convince others on Capitol Hill to rescue Jews in Europe from Nazis’ terror. President Roosevelt’s inaction to save the Jews baffled Will Rogers, Jr. who said, “I could not understand the Administration that I supported. I could not understand their attitude towards the rescue of large numbers of Jews …it would have been the humanitarian thing that I would have thought Roosevelt should have been in favor of. I…

The 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, written by Christopher R. Browning, seeks to understand the police officers behind the blitzkrieg against Polish Jews during the German military offensive of 1942. Rather than focus on the liquidation of major ghettos in Warsaw and in Lodz, this study focuses on the smaller towns and villages that included significant Jewish populations in Central Poland. By examining indictments and judgements from legal…

The path to the new world was a long, hard journey for European Jews. They had to endure many hardships, with everything culminating to passing a physical examination and getting their passport stamped in order to be allowed entry into America. America was seen as the land of opportunity for many Jews, and 5 out of every 6 Jewish immigrants decided to settle in Manhattan, primarily on the lower east side. The lower east side of Manhattan was a very congested area, and considered to be the slum…

In describing the Jewish identity, he presents it as a burden, stating that “a Jew fulfils his “religious duties” even if he doesn’t fulfill it”(p48). He further complains that “the Jew’s affirmation is involuntary, automatic,” which preceded his abuse of the Jews as stupid (due to his frustration at the fact that the Jews were helping the nation working to destroy them) rather than being the so-called smart ones. He argues that their unshakeable religious…

all of these things as a true insider unlike Lila Abu-Lughod who started off as an outsider. There is obviously a significant difference as I can never truly see Shabbat from the vantage point of an outsider as I have never experienced say a normal American Saturday. Even though my views on this subject have largely shifted from what I was taught growing up, I am still experiencing Shabbat whilst being viewed as a member regardless of whether that is a correct status. Lila Abu-Lughod’s status in…

Hitler manipulated the German citizens into believing that he would be followed unrivaled and that he was a superior being. In “The introduction to the Holocaust”, it states that “The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.” So, when he gained complete control and worked his way into a dictatorship, Hitler then decided to do something about the jewish population since he would not be…

SURVIVORS 3 c. In 1935, the rights of Jews are further limited, and their citizenship is revoked (Gordon). d. Along with their citizenship, the Jew’s right to vote is also revoked. At this point, the rest of the world was still clueless what was happening inside the nation, and During the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, all anti-Semitic propaganda was removed until the conclusion of the games (Rossol). Concurrently, Jewish owned businesses are boycotted. e. 30,000 Jews are arrested on…

a young Jewish boy who lives in Sighet which is a small town in Transylvania where he spent most of his childhood. A man name Moishe the Beadle was a poor man that became his master to teach him the Talmud and Kabbalah. Suddenly, all of the foreign Jews were expelled including his master. Moishe returned to the town to warn them about the horrible things that had happen with him and the others, but nobody listened to him thinking he had gone crazy. Soon enough the Germans came to the town and…