American Jews

Supposedly, not as many Americans have heard of the Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws by issuing thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced…

Comparatively, “the American soldiers marched into a place called Buchenwald that day. These war-hardened veterans had seen almost every form of horror that one human could visit on another during war. But nothing prepared the soldiers for the sight of the Buchenwald death camp” (Kallen).…

shaping of Palestine. Europeans, Palestinians, and even Americans affected the Zionist movement. Europeans reinvigorated the Zionist movement through continuous poor treatment of the Jews. Politically, Europeans supported Zionism due to their dislike of the Jews. They supported the Jews leaving. This had the opposite effect the Palestinians. They saw the Jews as essentially illegal immigrants who didn’t belong in Palestine. Americans originally viewed Zionism as a good thing due to the…

different animals and their representations. For example, the Jews are portrayed as mice which shows the sense that Jewish people are small and harmless, but also, gullible, bad-looking and powerless. The Germans are shown as cats. I think this represents their power and authority over the mice and how they can manipulate and force them into labour and death. As per the famous pair of cats chasing mice, the Nazis don’t just kill the Jews, they hunt them down, manipulate them, force them, then…

Nazis of the Jews, but how the Jews ended up viewing themselves. Spiegelman’s use of shading portrays the loss of identity, sets the scene, and shows the guilt that Valdek felt during and after the Holocaust. On pages 51, 55, and 58, Spiegelman uses the pattern of prison stripes on the faces of the mice to portray a sense of loss of individuality. It is normal for the clothes of prisoners to have stripes on them, but when Spiegelman expands that pattern onto the full bodies of the Jews, it makes…

is Jews or others; otherwise, it would be hard to classify who is who and which is which. There are lots of different characters in the story, and the author must find out a way to distinguish characters. Therefore, I think the author used animal figures rather than human. I think why did the author use animal figures instead of human figures is the most important question of this story. There would be someone who disagrees my opinion. They might say why didn’t the author just write Jews or…

of the Jewish population of the time. The Jews settled in Alexandria in the third century BC. and soon began to acculturate to the Greek culture that surrounded them. Although the Jews accepted much of Greek culture, and acknowledged its universal appeal, they could not embrace the polytheistic Greek belief system and were religiously rigid. Hence, they created their own variant of Hellenistic culture, one which embraced both Jewish and Greek values. Jews soon grew to be an important people in…

systematic killing of Jews during the Holocaust and the routine violence toward Native Americans during the colonial period. Historians estimate that approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, including about two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe; whereas in America, it is estimated that 80 to 95% of the Native population died after the Europeans arrived. Yet, while the Holocaust is arguably the most talked-about war atrocity in history, the Native Americans’…

Throughout the 1900’s, Russian and German Jews immigrated to the United States in massive droves. Between 1881 and 1914, over three million Russian Jews immigrated to the United States. They formed their own communities and neighborhoods, especially in cities such as New York, where the Lower East Side was composed almost entirely of Jewish immigrants. The Russian Jews immigrated to the United States for a plethora of reasons, most of which related to the prejudices and bigotry that they had…

Objectivity vs. Subjectivity in The Holocaust Museum Article The Holocaust was one of if not the most horrific set of events in human history. Jews were taken against their will by the Nazi party and forced into small concentration camps and ghettos. Over six million jews were killed before the Americans liberated the camps and the Jews were set free. In the article The Holocaust Museum by David Oliver Relin it shows many different objective and subjective key points. The objective evidence…