American Jews

Liberators/Rescuers/Resisters of the Holocaust The Liberators of the Holocaust were people who were allies and went to Nazi concentration camps and saved the people there. The people who liberated camps were not just Americans though, Soviet troops liberated Majdanek in July 1944 and continued in liberating camps all across Eastern Europe, another camp that the Soviets liberated was Auschwitz in January 1945. Starting from the Western side of Europe, the United States forces liberated Buchenwald…

neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most anti-Semitic riot in all of history. The riot reflected the…

actual experiences as they tend to focus on the Jewish and their search for belonging and identity. Potok separates the modernized Jewish culture in America from what he thinks is the true and original Jewish culture. This mirrors his life as an American Jew born and raised in the New York. Potok values the relationship of family in his books, especially between father and son, as the father would pass on their culture down to the son so that it can be passed for many more generations to come.…

world war two, it is based on a young orphan German girl who has been separated from her communists’ parents and is then taken in by a German couple, Hans and Rosa Hubermann who later in the novel also take in a Jew, Max Vandenburg who is hiding from the Nazis. During this time many Jews along with people of many other races were being persecuted, they were killed, imprisoned or forced into hiding. Max was one of those unlucky people who had to go into hiding although that is bad he was lucky…

movement would not go quietly, would not let this story end in failure. The Zionist movement truthfully began nearly the moment the Jews fled Jerusalem. However, this story will begin in 1897 when The First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland urges “a public and legally assured…

subject throughout the years. This is due to the fact that very few Americans wish to acknowledge and take responsibility for the part the US played in the atrocities that occurred. World War II began in 1939, but the oppression of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and other political enemies to the Nazis had begun quite some time before war broke out. In the beginning of 1935, Nazi Germany passed laws the deprived German Jews of their citizenship, leaving them utterly defenseless legally…

destroyed a majority of the Jews community. The Jewish community was excluded from their society. They were relocated to ghettos with scare resources. From there a majority of Jews were taken to concentration camps. In these camps, they were forced to do hard labor then put to death. About 17 million people were murdered. However, some Jews fought back. Some Jews hid in homes of non Jewish people or in the forest, and others fought against them. The Bielski Brothers were Jews from Stankevich.…

trying to recover from the effects of the Great Depression, have allowed more refugees than what was permissible, it would have “created more unemployment, cheap competition for American workers, and a heavier drain on public relief”₁₈, similar to America’s current immigration stance on refugees and immigrants. American Jews agreed with the policies that were being implemented and attempted to not…

Seen in five films titled Crash, Pleasantville, Cry Freedom, The Pianist and American History X, there are a handful of noticeable themes portrayed in each. Anthropologically, sociologically and psychologically, these films and their themes of discrimination, conformity and alienation as well as self actualization and realization interconnect among one another. Discrimination is the unjust treatment towards categories of people based on prejudices. In all five movies this was revealed, some…

The term “Melting Pot” describes a model of ethnic relations in which a nation-state's constituent ethnic groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. The phrase entered popular parlance with such élan that its origins still remain unknown and obscure to most people. Although one might safely attribute the wide-spread dissemination of the idea to Israel Zangwill, the Anglo-Jewish Zionist-turned-assimilationist, similar references had already been made by writers like J. Hector St. John de…