Greco-Persian Wars

After first seeing the sad memories, Jonas took the actions he saw other people doing very strongly. The fear of bad things happening changed the way Jonas looked at life; for example, the war game he used to play as a kid now had a completely new meaning. Once more, hope also changed the way Jonas dealt with his situation. Thus, Jonas left the city so that everyone would be able to enjoy and deal with the memories he had collected. Jonas…

In the book The Spanish Inquisition, Joseph Perez gives his view on why the Spanish Inquisition took place. The Spanish Inquisition began with the discrimination against any religion that opposed the Catholic Church in Spain. They mainly targeted the religious beliefs of Judaism making Jewish people and conversos the victims. Many Jews and Muslims were forced to leave the country or were persecuted because they could not openly practice their religion and did not want to convert. During this…

The impressions that I get about Christians, Jews and Muslims is that they all wanted what they believed to be the best thing for their people. They all fought wars against each other while they also benefited from each other. They all trade goods between then and help grow their communities and cities. Some were taken over and rebuilt and torn down again. The MUslims knew what they wanted when they invaded in 711, they most likely wanted everyone to end up being Muslim. In 732 Islam was…

Society throughout Europe changed drastically for many groups in the wake of the First World War. The nation-state of Poland was created, and many other borders were completely redrawn. The people began to have clear differences based on nationality and region, but were also very different within their own populations. This included the communities of Jews in these countries. The lives of Henry Buxbaum and Esther show that, while the Jews of West and East Europe during the interwar period had…

I identify myself as a white, Persian-American, spiritual, healthy, and heterosexual woman. In Persian culture, the majority of people left Iran for the United States following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. My family stayed. In my own country I lived a very comfortable life. My family belonged to a higher socioeconomic…

Esther 4:10-17 The book of Esther is a historical narrative, which tells the story of God’s people escaping exile in Israel with the help of a brave Jewish woman, Esther. While Esther has reservations about Mordecai’s request for her to appeal to King Xerxes, Esther follows through with the request, as she knows that it will serve the Jewish people. Mordecai on the contrary understands that God will stand true to His promise of redeeming the Jews, even if it is not on their desirable timeline.…

The position concerning Jewish ethnicity that Esther supports is the set of the Persian court and the multiple forms in which this book exists to address the Persian and Greek periods of Israel’s story. Ahasuerus was the King of Persia in 485-464 BCE, and while he and his friends were having a banquet he asked his queen, Vashti to appear before his guest. Because she refused the king deposed her as queen and a national search for a new queen was set out. Ester was discovered during a pageant…

Night Essay To dehumanize is to deprive someone of compassion, civility, or individuality. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used dehumanization to belittle Jews to mere “things”; objects with no purpose other than to be a nuisance. The Nazis were brutal in their endeavor to wipe out the “insignificant and worthless” Jewish race, mainly forcing their despicable horrors upon the Jewish people in German concentration camps. Although the majority of the dehumanization of the Jews was in German…

Abandoned by Stan Telchin reveals his personally journey, 20th century viewpoints of Jewish people, and ways to reach Jewish people for Yeshua. Immediately in the first chapter, Telchin captured my attention with his testimony of the opposition he encountered after accepting Yeshua. Once it was known in the Jewish community that he had received Yeshua, Telchin was immediately pegged as an outsider. He was no longer one of “them”. He details an example of the “us” versus “them” mentality that…

Othering is a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream, and it can reinforce and reproduce the positions of domination and subordination. In society, everyone is called normal until they find someone who is exactly the opposite. People act against others because they do not understand why they are so different. In The Book of Unknown Americans written by Cristina Henriquez, a character named Maribel was othered because she had a brain injury,…