Hasidic Judaism

Throughout history art has been a medium of delivery for meaning, messages, emotion, and religion; just to name a few. From Egyptian hieroglyphics to the political propaganda of the 20th century, art has delivered a wide variety of meaning to their interpreters. However, the depth of the meaning of art would be undecipherable without the several key elements and principles of art. That being said, it is crucial for one to understand the various aspects of an art piece in order to decipher the…

Chapter 1 Summary: Their in a small town and people were taken by soldiers Key quotation: “It belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone” Questions/Reflections: What is a Yellow Star? Why were Jews told to wear them? Why did the storyteller and his family get to stay and everyone else was taken? Chapter 2 Summary: The story teller and his family were taken into a train with the rest of the people and were brought to the first camp that they stay at. Key quotation:…

Danny and Reuven are proof that opposites do attract. They met by an unfortunate event where Reuven got hit in the eye by Danny’s ball in a game of baseball. Reuven’s eye was pretty badly injured and he was taken to the hospital. While Reuven was in the hospital recovering from his injury, Danny visited him and tried to mend what had been broken by saying he was sorry. At first, Reuven wanted nothing to do with Danny,but Reuven’s father convinced him to accept Danny’s plea for forgiveness.…

128232: Life German leader, Adolph Hitler, conducted the largest genocide of the Jews, homosexuals, and anyone that did not have Aryan characteristics. Many people today study and observe the horrific events that took place throughout World War II. What many people do not consider is all of the survivors that lived through Hitler’s reign. Solomon Radasky once said, “When a person is in trouble he wants to live. He fights for his life…” (Radasky). All of the people that were imprisoned struggled…

Some biblical writers, in the Old and New Testament, recognized God presence in their midst and experienced the transforming power of divine grace. Some of the writers portray God to have a humanlike personality, a cosmic authority character traits and behaviors of bewildering variety, he is the creator of everything. However some authors portray God as love, generosity, compassion, and merciful, while others emphasized his anger and violence. God is portrayed a eager to save his creation and…

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the hands of the Nazis. The Jews’ desire to live…

In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice loss is portrayed in various different ways. The character Shylock, who does not have much to begin with, suffers numerous losses as the play progresses. Some of the losses he experiences are also experienced by the characters in the poems. The character Shylock is constantly dehumanised by the other characters as he was a Jew in a predominantly Christian society, this also happens in the poem ‘Refugee Blues’ by W.H. Auden, which is a poem written in the voice…

Anti-Semitism is malicious behaviour that persecutes Jewish individuals Throughout history the Jewish community have been persecuted and tortured by other faiths for no justified reason. The first instances of Anti-semitism towards the Jews dates back to biblical times where they were captured as slaves in Egypt. Most of the time Jews were criticised for not fitting in with the rest of society, they separated themselves and refused to accept the ways of lives of non Jewish communities. The…

The Holocaust was and still is considered one of the most tragic events in history. To sum it all up, it was a series of unfortunate events for not only Jews but Gypsies, homosexuals, the physically/ mentally disabled, and Jehovah 's Witnesses. The Nazi’s killed a total of 11 million people; 6 million were Jews, by the end of World War II in 1945. The police officials incarcerated and placed an abundance of people in concentration camps. These poor and mistreated people went through torturous…

Mendoza the Jew and Religious Tolerance Religious prosecution against Jews was prevalent all throughout European history. The story of Daniel Mendoza in Schechter and Clarke’s graphic history novel Mendoza the Jew perfectly embodies religious prosecution in eighteenth century England. Daniel Mendoza, an 18th century Jewish boxer, fought a battle in and out of the ring against religious prosecution in late 1700’s England. Being born into a deeply religious Jewish family Daniel learned the…