New antisemitism

propaganda that promotes fear and blame towards a weakened minority will find more success in control than propaganda that doesn’t choose a target. To provide context, Adolf Hitler rose to power in a Germany and in a world that were already filled with antisemitism. In fact, even the United States of America was dripping with it. Henry Ford, celebrated american automobile…

to focus on the Jewish and their search for belonging and identity. Potok separates the modernized Jewish culture in America from what he thinks is the true and original Jewish culture. This mirrors his life as an American Jew born and raised in the New York. Potok values the relationship of family in his books, especially between father and son, as the father would pass on their culture down to the son so that it can be passed for many more generations to come. There is also great emphasis on…

Why Didn’t the Jews Leave? When Hitler was elected to be leader he seemed like to the type to make everything better, which everybody was looking for at the time, but within a couple months that all went downhill. As the days got longer the Jews felt more and more APPREHENSIVE knowing something was going to happen but couldn 't do anything about it.Hitler was the type of person who caused pain for pleasure. During the Holocaust, many countries enforced laws towards emigrating citizens out of…

The 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, written by Christopher R. Browning, seeks to understand the police officers behind the blitzkrieg against Polish Jews during the German military offensive of 1942. Rather than focus on the liquidation of major ghettos in Warsaw and in Lodz, this study focuses on the smaller towns and villages that included significant Jewish populations in Central Poland. By examining indictments and judgements from legal…

The Jewish people have been marked by violence and persecution unlike any other group of humans in mankind long and often troublesome history. Rather it be at onset of great empires like Rome or at the hands of sadistic rulers like Hitler, the Jews have been face with grave circumstances there entire existence. Yet for reasons some would consider divine intervention and others would simply associate as luck the Jewish race and culture has survived and often times thrived throughout history.…

Humanity’s past is filled with traumatic, violent events. Wars have been waged, bombs have been dropped, and innocent lives have been caught up in the crossfire. Each of these acts is terrible in their own right, but perhaps the most ruthless of them all are categorized under the term genocide. The systematic purging of an entire ethnic group or nation. Genocide does not simply take lives; its aim is to completely blot out a people’s history and future. The effects of such a campaign are clearly…

Jean Améry, a survivor of the Holocaust, paints a very complicated and contradicting picture concerning the “necessity and impossibility of being a Jew.” The impossibility comes from Améry’s faith, or lack thereof. He states, “If being a Jew implies having a cultural heritage or religious ties, then I was not one and can never become one” (Améry, p 83). He has not, is not, and never will, be a Jew because he does not believe in God or partake in Jewish traditions. Before Hitler’s ascent to power…

Resistance should never have a far-reaching definition. Specific events, actions, and ideologies comprise a war, meaning that no single definition of resistance should qualify as a standard. Resistance through the Holocaust manifested itself in different ways, spiritually, nonviolently, armed and unarmed. The danger of narrowly defining resistance which was circulated by post-cold war scholars and painted with prejudice. The bulk of Holocaust research being post-cold war, it is easy to see why…

A Gateway to Death In Night, Elie Wiesel explains his sinister experience of the concentration camps and its ruthless captors. When Wiesel witnessed the deaths and tortures of his race, he became bitter and pessimistic. When he watched the Jews burn, starve, or beaten to death by the captors, Wiesel felt that God was no longer on the Jews’ side. He felt that all hope was lost and that his death was near. Wiesel expresses his emotion and experience through figurative language, such as the Jews’…

European imperialism during the nineteenth century caused new habits and hierarchies among people in Europe. This political factor caused great divide across Europe between different themselves and create these groups to want their group to be superior over other groups. The divide between people would create…