Land of Israel

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…

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…

this world and maintain a Jewish identity. Another significant part of my Jewish identity lies in my tie to Israel. I was born into a family that has Israeli roots. That in itself, however, did not teach me to appreciate the existence of a homeland where Jews from various cultures and even races can find sanctuary. Schecter has heightened my awareness of the importance of the sate of Israel and has educated me in the workings of its government, history, and language (work in progress). I…

During World War II, the German Government was seized by fascist Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the genocide of countless Jewish citizens. This horrific event is commonly referred to as the Holocaust. While the U.S. took in a limited number of refugees, ultimately, the military took their time to grant freedom to Europe and end Hitler’s reign. The actions that were taken by the United States during this period left citizens divided. There were supporters who believed that a stronger,…

History of Israel Palestine Relationship and Negotiations: A full timeline of Israel 's key events is contained in Appendix A. The country of Israel was established in 1947 when the UN voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, wish Jerusalem and Bethlehem to be controlled by the UN. In the following years, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from Israel, and up to a million Jewish refugees from Arab countries and 250,000 holocaust survivors settle in…

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” this quote by Dalai Lama is significant in this essay because Elie Wiesel and tons of other jewish people did not receive love or compassion during the holocaust. They were treated horribly and no human should have to ever experience what they have experienced. They were barely fed, had barely any clothing at all, and they were stripped of all of their personal belongings when they had first arrived. They…

Cruelty describes something that is beyond evil, such as the acts that the Nazis committed towards the Jews showing the theme of inhumanity to man. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel he describes the way that the Nazis treat him and the other Jews, which is horrific and progressively worsens. When Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the…

The swimming contest by Benjamin Tammuz is a story of an Arab boy and an Israeli boy. This took place around the time where there was huge tension between the Arabs and the Jews. There had been much division and segregation amongst the two people. Most of the time, the youth is not up to date with any sort of political conflict or racial division that is occurring at the time. Hatred for the other group is a learned behavior that some youth have not learned yet. Such as the two boys in this…