American Jews

represented a turning point for Jews, they could either adapt to the changing world around them or attempt to maintain what they had been doing since the canonization of the Torah. Through the destruction, Jews were able to persevere and adapt while keeping the same basic structural values and ideals present while the second temple was functioning. The dust of the desolate sanctuary that was the second temple is the foundation that Halevi relied on and that all Jews rely on…

Group Essay Kiera Fisher, Emily Sanchez, Jackie Piepkorn, Katie Pak Per. 2 6 million innocent European Jews died in the Holocaust. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author is sent to a concentration camp under horrid, unimaginable conditions. Everyday he fights for his life and protects his father. In Life is Beautiful, Joshua believes he is playing a game, but really, he is in a concentration camp with his father. This helps both Joshua and his father fight to stay healthy and keep…

In 1933-1945 Germans and the Nazi party participated in a genocide, which lead to the death of 6 million jews, and 17 million to total. Elie Wiesel published his book Night in 1960. Before the book he was too apart of the Holocaust, transported to Auschwitz during the end of the war in 1944. Elie was liberated in 1945. Once free he became a college professor, nazi investigator, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. The book Night is compared to the movie Life is Beautiful, this movie was released in…

power over Germany and that lead to millions of deaths of the Jewish population. Many survivors lived and decided to share their story. One of those survivors was Elie Wiesel. Elie was 15 years of age when he was sent to Auschwitz (Holocaust for Jews). Ten years later, he wrote his book Night explaining the extreme cruel treatment that he and other Jewish believers experienced while in the camp. This paper will focus mainly on Elie Wiesel and how he explores the themes of inhumanity, night,…

Systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime. That is the Holocaust. Many people survived to tell their stories of suffering and torture. One of the most prominent survivors was Elie Wiesel. The book Night was written by Elie Wiesel. The book is about Elie and his family in the 1940s who were sent to concentration camps by the German Nazis. The mother and youngest daughter were sent to the gas chamber as soon as they arrived. Elie and…

The Algerian march on the 17th of October in 1961, and the presence of the camp for Jews at Drancy. In the start of the novel in 1961, Daeninckx demonstrates how quiet, seemingly insignificant moments and people have deeper meaning than meets the eye. The inhumane execution of Roger and the causality of brutality by the CRS on the Algerian…

Over the last 3,000 years, nations have been confronted with destruction, death, and poverty all at the hands of war. In this time frame as nations continue to perish, these disastrous effects have portrayed the role fear and separation has in the lives of citizens. Edith Hahn Beer in her memoir, The Nazi Officer's Wife and Tim O'Brien in his novel, The Things They Carried reveal this as both authors recount living during Nazi Europe and the Vietnam War. Through both experiences, Beer and…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a prize winning masterpiece work on history and memoir. The book narrates the story of Spiegelman’s father in Poland at the advent of World War 11 and how he turned out to be a second generation Holocaust survivor. This literary work draws so much comparison with Elie’s work in the book Night. Elie’s work is more of a memoir just as it is with Art’s work. These two characters survive a difficult period in their life and they therefore end deciding to put their personal…

Modernity and the Jewish individual are the topics being discussed in the entry titled Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky. Leora Batnitzky addresses the complicated question “What value is there to Judaism in an age in which Jews do not have to be defined as Jews?”. Using modern jewish philosophers and as well their beliefs and cultural backgrounds Leora aims to answer this complex question as well as lead the reader to ask and form their own opinions on this topic. In order to begin…

Each day was full of horror experiences for each individuals. The Jews got expelled from the small ghetto, Eliezer and his family members and even other people from their community were thrown in some cattle cars. They had to stay in those cattle cars for three long nights. Whenever Eliezer arrived in Buchenwald after…