Ancient Jewish Roman history

happened in Masada. Masada is an ancient place with lots of history with it. The life at Masada was very frightening, because you have to spend every day fearing for our life. The gruesome way that all the people of Masada died was gruesome. HISTORY OF MASADA The word Masada means “mountain fortress.” The Zealots, who lived on Masada, held back ten- thousand Romans for three years. The reason Masada was made livable is because King Herod and his family was attacked by Parthians and him and his family fled to Masada to be safe, so he fixed up Masada around thirty-seven b.c. –thirty-one b.c.. After…

The destruction of the Jewish temple and the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans around 70 C.E. is a significant part of the saga of the Jewish people. The destruction of this famous cultural city and its renowned temple had extreme and far fetching consequences for not only the inhabitants of the city but to all Jewish culture. When examining the causation of this destruction historians turn to one of the most important primary sources of the event the historian Flavius Josephus.…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

lived in Germany got out and out of everybody who was left behind there was a limited number who did survive. This shows how hard it was to get out of the country and how short of time you had, it states that Hitler got into office and just a short time later all the borders were shut off to anybody going in or out, unless you were a German soldier. Germany wasn’t the only country that was anti-Semitic because of how many Jews got denied from other countries. The United States had the Johnson…

were many chapters that hit very close to my heart, causing me to feel emotion. The chapter that affected me the most and was very moving to me was How Soccer Explains the Jewish Question. "An entire movement of Jews believed that soccer and sport generally, would liberate them from the violence and tyranny and anti-Semitism." That quote is incredibly powerful and liberating. The chapter explains how throughout history there has not been very much Jewish dominance when it comes to athletics, but…

At the time, America was very anti-semitic, so Roosevelt believed he needed to convince Americans that the solution to the Jewish question would help Christians as well as Jews(Breitman 156). He was more concerned with the long term implications politically of his actions than an immediate rescue to save lives and limited the number of refugees accepted for political success. Southern democrats and conservative republicans did not support the refugees and trying to save the jews, so he did not…

The extent to which the zionism movement is responsible for the present conflict between Israel and Palestine is significant. Zionism is a historic movement which centres around the desire for Jewish independence and a secure homeland in Zion. Palestine is where the land of Zion is located, also known as Jerusalem (Aviv and Shneer, New Jews, pp.4). The period before the zionism movement, the factors that contributed to the emergence of zionism and the aims of the movement have all been crucial…

The mice do not have big noses and do not have a preconceived notion about them. In the second volume of the first chapter in, Maus, Françoise says, “But if you’re a mouse, I ought to be a mouse, too. I converted, didn’t I?” (Volume II. Chapter 1. Page 1) This is an example where the lines are blurred when discussing Jews as a race or religion. Art draws Françoise as a mouse because he had the faith and the culture of the Jewish people. This message relates to a large community because it helps…

The Holocaust was a time of pure evil and grief. From when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, lasting to the day the war ended in 1945, the Jewish population was taken from their homes, put to work, and faced with shocking living conditions. One of Hitler’s goals was to racially cleanse the society of Germany and areas in Poland to become a complete Aryan race. In 1933 the first concentration camp was established. These camps were used as either work camps, transit camps, or killing…

Holocaust is not very logical” (Bauer 15). It has been seventy years since the Holocaust ended yet it continues to be a relevant part of American History. In the United States there are endless opportunities to learn about the Holocaust in America: books, articles, movies, and museums. This is very perplexing considering the Holocaust did not occur in the United States nor were the American people part of the Nazi Germany that killed six million Jews and many others. If Americans wanted to be…