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This summary of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod will provide an examination of the Palestinian Diaspora in relation to the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Part One of this book is entitled “Places of Memory”, which consists of historical perspectives of scholars, such as Chapter 1’s article by Susan Slyomovics, related to Nakba through the memories of refugees in the town of Qula: “A different history historiography, grounded in testimonial…

Shylock shows the intriguing conflict between the Christians and the Jews in Venice. Shylock immediately shows his hatred for Antonio, as he says in an aside, “I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis”. This shows his loathing for Antonio based on that fact that he dislikes Christians and highlighting the conflict between Christians and Jews in Venice, furthermore, Antonio is seen as a rival in his business, this further emphasizes the…

Produced in 1939 by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Light Ahead highlights a transition away from past superstitious beliefs toward Jewish Enlightenment thinking. The film is set in a small village of Glupsk, which serves to portray Jewish shtetl life as a juxtaposition to big city life. In his film, Ulmer pushes for the furtherance of Jewish Enlightenment through underlining stark contrasts in opinion between religious leaders of the village and Mendele, a book peddler and Jewish Enlightenment thinker.…

all places of the world. The term is derived from an ancient Greek word which means " to scatter about". But the term has been particularly referred to the historical mass movements of involuntary nature like that of the expulsion of the Jews from Israel, the trading of Africans as slaves into North America, the displacement…

Groups Other Than Jewish People Thesis: Many groups of people other than Jews were affected by the Holocaust. I. Holocaust background A. What is the Holocaust? 1. The word Holocaust literally means sacrifice by fire. Today, it refers to the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime, led by Adolf Hitler (Introduction to the Holocaust). What isn’t as widely known is the fact that in addition to these six million Jewish people, another five million…

Father-Son Relationships in Night The Holocaust was not only a dreadful series of anti-semitism, but it also served as an attack on humanity. When the simple yet innate facets of what people consider to make one human are challenged by the overarching demand of survival, human beings begin to plunge into a damning and vicious cycle creating a depletion of the human race itself. The facets that were killed the ideas and/or concepts of family, companionship, and camaraderie. For a fact, these…

Elie Wiesel’s Night teaches about the Holocaust from the perspective of a Jewish boy named Eliezer. Reading and analyzing Night has conveyed points about the Holocaust that differ from topics that I have studied in the past. The main point of my analyzation of Night is the dehumanization of the Nazis’ victims, mainly in concentration camps. Many past Holocaust books and movies that I have studied focus more on the events that happen before the concentration camps, but Night takes place almost…

during the post-colonial period in the Middle East as one of the most unresolved and controversial conflicts in human history. The year 1948 marks the beginning of the Palestinian al-ghurba (exile) as well as the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel. The founding of the new state is often described as Al-Nakba, meaning “the catastrophe or disaster”, referring directly to the 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who fled or were expelled from their homes during Israel’s war of independence, alone.…

Genocide is absolutely horrifying, especially when the reasoning is religion and physical appearance. The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells about a young boy, Elie, and his father as they try their best to survive in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Luckily for them, they have a good enough physical appearance to pass the tests used to determine if you survive. These tests consist of stereotyping and judging people based off of body type instead of how hard they can work. Because these…

Janet R. Jakobsen’s essay, Queers Are Like Jews, Aren’t They? Analogy and Alliance Politics, discusses in depth what it means to queer something and to do Jewish. Jakobsen explains the relationship between these two actions and encourages the process of “thinking through the possibilities of playing off multiple norms” (p 82). She is able to do this with the help of a reading by Stacy Wolf on Barbara Streisand’s queer performances. I will look closely at Jakobsen’s argument about Barbara…