New antisemitism

Mount Herzl (Har Herzl in Hebrew) also known as Har haZikaron, “the Mountain of Memory” is an 834 meter hill located on the outskirts of West Jerusalem. It is considered to be one of the highest points in Jerusalem offering a 360 degree view of the Holy City. It was named after the founder of the modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl, who dedicated his life to the idea of Jewish self determination and the return of the Jews to their historic homeland. In 1896 Herzl wrote a pamphlet called "The Jewish…

During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews were persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and its surrounding nations. Following World War 1, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and formed one of the most powerful fascist totalitarian states at the time. Hitler blamed the economic depression on the Jews and others he believed to be inferior. He wanted to eradicate the people who were seen as a threat to the German people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional representation of…

“On the face of it, the increasing preoccupation with the Holocaust is not very logical” (Bauer 15). It has been seventy years since the Holocaust ended yet it continues to be a relevant part of American History. In the United States there are endless opportunities to learn about the Holocaust in America: books, articles, movies, and museums. This is very perplexing considering the Holocaust did not occur in the United States nor were the American people part of the Nazi Germany that killed six…

In year ca. 1160 Rabbi Benjamin, son of Jonah, started off on his journey from his native city of Saragossa, Spain and then travelled through many cities in what is now known as Asia, Europe and Africa. This travelogue was first written in Hebrew by Benjamin but was then much later translated and complied by Marcus Nathan Adler. Benjamin documented his travels through explanation of the people, geographical nature, culture and the existence of the Jewish populations. He was connected to his…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

Writers often tell two stories when writing one. It’s natural habit. Often there is an ulterior motive when writers use such a technique but, sometimes, there is not. This “two-story telling,” without any ulterior motive takes place in “Maus” by Art Spiegelman where Vladek, Art’s father, recounts the story of the ghastly holocaust and how this relationship effects both of them. Even though Spiegelman doesn’t outright say that the story is also about his relationship with his father, it is…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson presents a myriad of themes that deal with the persecution of others. The fact that the chosen individual of the lottery was to be stoned to death by their peers was perhaps the most shocking and climactic moment of the story. The reader would never suspect the murderous intentions of the town’s tradition since the plot builds up in such an innocent fashion. Jackson decisively places themes in the story that satirically exploit the disadvantages of following…

In, The Destruction of the European Jews, Hilberg states that “they had evolved a set of reactions that were to remain remarkably constant over the centuries. This pattern may be portrayed by the following diagram: Resistance Alleviation Evasion Paralysis Compliance” (Hilberg). Arnost Lustig shows in his novel, The Unloved, that these five classifications are not independent of one another, but are in fact organic, flowing and melting into one another. This paper explores that melding of those…

Comparative study project Night was an extraordinary novel that comprises the tragedies and horrific life the author goes through under the atrocities of the Nazis. Night, has put together some of the excellent themes that can be compared and contrasted with the movie, American history X. Both the subjects share some common and opposite themes, that shows the human characteristic under different circumstances, which could be analysed. In the following paragraphs, I will put together the…

The Desire to Create Spanish Unity Throughout the history of medieval Spain, a myriad of methods of control are employed by the political and religious regimes of the time in order to strengthen the unity of the state. In this paper, I will argue that religious persecution was rooted in the desire to create political and religious unity in Medieval Spain. The origins of religious persecution in the context of Christianity can be traced back to the time of the Visigoths, when the conversion…