Ashkenazi Jews

Malamud enjoyed showing that he was Jewish in his writings, but this was for the sake of his nationality and interest in his writings. Malamud used his Jewish background, because he wanted people to know who he was, and wanted people to know that Jewish people are what add drama to stories. The short stories “the Magic Barrel” and “The German Refugee” displays Bernard Malamud 's Jewish culture and background through characters and other parts in the story. According to Bernard Malamud’s the…

doing his job as a diplomat, he saw many atrocities happening to the Jews in Europe. He struggled with the concept of issuing visas to the Jewish community because he was unsure about disobeying his government's orders. Because of Sugihara's brave decision to go against the anti-Semitism in Europe, he was able to save 8,000 Jews from being annihilated. Chiune Sugihara took a stand in history when he made transit visas for European Jews, granting freedom for Jewish refugees.…

offered the quickest relief to people in need. However, World War II may have been the biggest event that changed people’s lives. People across the world became refugees because of the destruction, soldiers endured horrible battles and conditions, and Jews had a genocide committed against them by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. The war caused terror through most of Europe, parts of Africa, and across the Pacific Ocean. Albert Camus’, a writer at the time of World War II, wrote The Stranger, a piece…

Could you ever imagine being away from home, not being allowed to see your friends, and not being able to do the things you enjoy? The young, brave, and remarkable little girl who was an incredible writer while she hid with her family in an annex during World War 2 and then she was later found and sent away to camps, where she later died. Anne often described the circumstances and consequences for being born into a Jewish family in her diary that she was given by her father, Otto Frank. Anne…

protection or advantage. The Jews of Israel were deprived of adequate protection and a fair advantage and because of that the creation of a Jewish homeland was even more important. While many Jews in Israel, were traditional orphans who had lost their parents, all Jews in Israel were orphans in the way that they were deprived of some protection or advantage in the world. From the very start of Israel, the Jews knew that without a homeland, there would be no place refuge for the Jews. Israel…

Babylonians in 587 B.C.E., the Jewish community found itself in a world surrounded by Gentiles. Dispersed and alone, the Jews had to learn how to live in a world where their beliefs and ideals were not standard practice. With success, the Jews managed to keep their identities through upholding specific traditions. After occupation by the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Syrians, and Romans, the Jews’ ideologies evolved resulting in the development of four unique parties: the Pharisees, Sadducees,…

There is a line in the musical Spamalot where Sir Robin sings to King Arthur; “In any great adventure, if you don 't want to lose ... you won 't succeed on Broadway if you don 't have any Jews!" (PBS, Broadway Musicals). If you can look past the sweeping generalization, Sir Robin’s surprising lyric turns out to be very true about musicals. Historians have recognized that Jewish immigrant culture heavily influenced the content of musical theatre when it was popularized in America during the early…

Judaism and Jews. Throughout the film, the paradoxical anti-Semitic view of Jewish self-hatred can be seen but along with this, viewers see that as much as Danny hates Jews and Judaism, he cares about the traditions as well. Although Danny kills himself, thus ending the protagonist, the ending of the film is inconclusive. One could argue that Danny chose to take his own life because of his internal struggle between being a neo-Nazi and a Jew. Danny voices many times that he hates Jews and…

author would have expected. I remember hearing the members of my mother’s family making belittling comments about Jews while my…

his military experience to give the story an undeniable realism, but sets it at the time when the question of what it meant to be a Jew was most fraught. The Holocaust was known, and becoming more so, but Israel would not be founded until 1948. American Jews were in difficult circumstances. On one hand, they had been spared the direct horrors suffered by European Jews who had been killed in the Nazi concentration camps; on the other, many were recent immigrants, like Sheldon Gross Bart’s father,…