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First, I chose this quotation because it helps establish Eliezer’s spiritual standings that will be represented throughout the book. To explain, this quotation is important because it allows Eliezer to find the answer to the original question that appeared earlier “Why do you pray?”. Throughout the book, Eliezer is angry and questions why God has placed him on this disagreeable path. In addition to having this quotation, it gives Eliezer the opportunity to find the answers to his questions…

Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, Therefore Jewish memory.” (viii). Hitler wanted to the Jewish people out, out forever like they never existed. Hitler didn’t want to have Jewish people in the world because he did not like them. He like what they were believing didn’t agree about how they live their lives. The Jewish people were stripped of the pride, religion and…

The portrayal of sorrow in ‘’The Last Night’’ and ‘’Refugee Blues’’ varies between each piece. In Refugee Blues it describes how the Jewish were treated and rejected even when they are in times of hardship. Similarly the Last Night also focuses on the innocence of the Jews; it portrays the Jewish people in their last glimpse of freedom before they reach the concentration camps, and compels the dehumanisation of the children as well as the adults. The portrayal of rejection and how they were…

people of the Christian faith avoided prosecution, in contrast with the Jews who were treated with less consideration. An incident involving inequality between the two religions occurred in 1516 when the doges of Venice nearly decided to prohibit the Jewish people…

plague about a third of the worlds population was erased as a direct result. The Black Death reshaped the world in numerous ways such as trade between nations, economy, and religion. Christians throughout Europe were beginning to persecute people of Jewish descent. The Jews have been persecuted all throughout history, from the time of Jesus, The Black Death, Holocaust. The Jews were always a target because they had different religious beliefs from everyone else. There…

families in 1941 when the Holocaust began. As chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler’s goal was to create the Aryan race and rid the world of those he deemed as “undesirable.” As a result of this, Hitler began rounding up inferior individuals such as Jewish people, homosexuals, and the disabled. He forced them into sectioned off towns, known as ghettos, and concentration camps. Hitler used ground troops to run the camps and many of these men were given orders to kill the undesirable population.…

enemies. Nehemiah started out as the king of Persia’s cup bearer and was eventually commissioned as a governor. Before entering into the leadership of Nehemiah the Jewish people had been exiled for over seventy years, Jerusalem had been completely destroyed, and the temple had been burned in 586 B.C. Zerubhabar led the first group of Jewish exiles to return and begin the rebuilding phases of the temple. Ezra led the second group, and Nehemiah proceeded him. The Persians dominated the Near…

status among the Jewish society, and some wavered between where they stood. The result, however, was ultimately a division between groups of people who either supported or opposed such an outreach. The key earthly players leading up to the outreach of the Gentiles included Cornelius, Peter, and an angel of the Lord. Follow up support later came from Paul, Barnabas, James, the apostles, and the Jerusalem council. In contrast, non-supporters included a major portion of the Jewish people, believers…

prejudiced views of the audience; this image “becomes the stereotype and historical image of a Jew” (1). Although Shylock is a very strong adoption of the traditional image of the Jew, Ray points out that he is a man of dignity that pleads on behalf of the Jewish race and humanity (1). He also reveals the reason why the Jews were despised by the Christians and Venetians, as well as how their prejudice influenced the Jews. Despite the continual mistreatment by the Christians and Venetians…

contact with many people on the path to survival. Some of these people were a great help, some provided him with a great disservice, and others managed to do both simultaneously. This memoir presents the reader with an ambivalent attitude toward non-Jewish neighbors, and this ambivalence sheds light on a much more broad moral question: can collective trauma bring out both the best and the worst in people, and what does that look like for those that are in need of aide? As mentioned above,…