American Jews

It has been 71 years since the end of the Holocaust, the event which ended up with six million Jews exterminated; the word “Genocide” was born, and the faith in God for the many of those who survived is challenged. Elie Wiesel, through his book, Night, narrated his experience in Auschwitz. It was where most of his family was not survive, where he had to see the scene of death, and where his God “were killed”. Throughout the story, the author showed that a person’s faith in God can be tested when…

The Jews are not hoping to be dealt with so horrendously, but rather they are not willing to starve and be treated so harshly by the Germans. Close to the start of the diary, Eliezer experiences lost confidence in the wake of seeing terrible demonstrations of barbarism. The Jews were dealt with as though they were refusing in the city. Nobody felt the need to say anything on the grounds that they felt they would be beaten considerably more. " The individuals who kept noiseless yesterday will…

In the article, Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long Distance Nationalism, it discusses how participants from the program feelings were affected based on attachment to Israel and their political standpoint. The commonly known belief that attitude towards your homeland is linked to ethnonationalism, which is connected to the work done by Benedict Anderson. Anderson’s theory of long distance nationalism is that diasporans feel disconnected because of the distance between themselves and their…

in makeshift camps on the border. Hitler’s actions spurred Herschel’s revenge on the political regime. (Kristallnacht, 1) On the day of November 7th, 1938 he did something catastrophic that changed the pace of the future and how Hitler treated the Jews. Herschel fully intended on killing the German Ambassador to France. When he couldn’t find him, he set his target on the third official down, Secretary Ernst Vom Rath, who died just days after the altercation. Hitler’s agenda was not a secret to…

In the handout on Anti-Semitism and the excerpt titled, How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin, it is clear that the structure of injustice presented in both of these pieces was that of institutional anti-Semitism. According to Michael Lerner, the definition of anti-Semitism is “the systematic discrimination against Jews and against Jewish cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage” (Adams pp. 135). Prior to the readings, I had the misconception that anti-Semitism strictly occurred in…

Christianity. The Hellenistic period began following Alexander the Great’s conquest in 334 BCE and continued culturally till almost the seventh century CE. During this period, the Jews incorporated Hellenistic thoughts with their Judaic traditions; this is made evident in the passage on Philo of Alexandria. Philo–a Hellenized Jew–has no problem incorporating his religion with elements of Greek philosophy. He takes a passage from Genesis: “Moses tells us that man was created after the image of…

in German occupied Poland, with the Holocaust starting to form, the majority of the Jewish population were executed by simple civilians as well the “ordinary men” who had been recruited into the numerous police battalions who were ordered to execute Jews on site. To some degree, the Jewish chances of survival depended on the aid of the polish civilians and the gentiles that were at just as much risk for German persecution as they were. As Niewyck assesses, the question between whether bystander…

Also, the memory of the Holocaust has proven to be unbearable as it has left long lasting mental effects on the characters. The Nazi government systemically attacked and persecuted the Jews with brutal violence and sent millions of them to concentration camps. As a result, Spiegelman’s family has been traumatized and has “children of holocaust survivors growing up with the simultaneous presence and absence of the Holocaust memory in their lives” (Kohli, 2012, p. 2). In fact, “Maus is not about…

anti-Jewish. This material could be a reflection of the emerging division between Jewish Christian and Jews. In this paper, I will be inspecting the Gospel of John to validate the presence of anti-Semitic material. Exploration of the historical background of this time will be analyzed to determine the derivation of anti-Semitism within this gospel based on the Gospel of John’s negative representation of the Jews and their traditions. The Gospel of John is unlike any other gospel in the New…

The Holocaust began with Adolf Hitler’s want to get rid of the entire population of Jewish people living in Europe. In Germany, one of his tactics to achieve this goal was the passing of the Nuremberg Laws. To ensure the total dehumanization of Jews the Nazi party enforced two laws that stripped them of their rights, affected where they could live and work, and invited mistreatment from the Aryan people around them On September 15, 1935 Hitler and the Nazi party passed the Nuremberg Laws that…