Persian Jews

“In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.” 2 Timothy 2:20-21. Samaritans, tax-collectors, and children, are three groups of people groups that have one thing in common. Surprisingly, all these people were despised in Jesus’ time. However…

told to keep Bruno under his father’s firmly held views on the jewish people is when his father says, “"Ah, those people, those people… well, they're not people at all, Bruno”(Boyne 283). Bruno is under the influence that Shmuel and the rest of the Jews are not human. In other words, his father tells him that they deserve a less amount of respect than a person of their own decent receives. Bruno’s father lies to impact his son’s perspective on his new friend…

the other, they instead remained idle out of fear. Two, the non Jewish members that used to live in Sighet amongst the Jews did not do anything to venture to help the Jews when they were taken out of their homes and stripped from their old lives. They used to pass each other in the streets, they saw each other’s children grow up and when awful activity began happening to the Jews, the others did zilch. They acted as if it wasn't their problem, they were still living in their homes, they still…

Although ambiguous about his specific personal religious beliefs, he has affiliations with both the Christian and Jewish communities. Despite not actually being Jewish, Styles was named number 73 on the Jewish Chronicle’s Power 100 list. According to the Chronicle, Styles ‘may not be Jewish but he seems very much at ease with a Jewish lifestyle, [wore] a silver Star of David at the Teen Choice awards, hangs out at kosher eateries and is not afraid to throw the odd Yiddish word or two into the…

civility, or individuality. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used dehumanization to belittle Jews to mere “things”; objects with no purpose other than to be a nuisance. The Nazis were brutal in their endeavor to wipe out the “insignificant and worthless” Jewish race, mainly forcing their despicable horrors upon the Jewish people in German concentration camps. Although the majority of the dehumanization of the Jews was in German concentration camps, there was also a great deal of injustice…

Othering is a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream, and it can reinforce and reproduce the positions of domination and subordination. In society, everyone is called normal until they find someone who is exactly the opposite. People act against others because they do not understand why they are so different. In The Book of Unknown Americans written by Cristina Henriquez, a character named Maribel was othered because she had a brain injury,…

Jewish people shortly before WWII. He believed that the intermixing of Aryans and Jews would taint the blood of the Aryan lineage, eventually leading to the destruction of the human race. Anti-Jewish prejudice achieved a nationwide scale, such as the Nuremberg Laws, which forbade those of Jewish religion to hold German citizenship and establish relations with German people. Another example would be The Eternal Jew. This was a film created by Fritz Hippler as anti-Semitic propaganda. It was…

For my preliminary proposal I wanted to look at the rhetoric arguments between the print and film version of the same story. I then Identified three books, which had been turned into films that I wanted to analyze: The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, The Pianist, and Defiance. But as you pointed out, doing all three films in depth would be extremely difficult for one project. From this I have refined my research intention quite a bit, I still want to look at the difference in rhetoric between film…

these proceedings, the relationships between Christians, Jews, and Muslims were tested in order to maintain set social boundaries. These social boundaries, however, were not absolute in reality as depicted in The Song of the Cid. Instead, Jews and Muslims present more a of a caricature view in The Song of the Cid. In this essay, I am going to examine how Jews and Muslims were presented in The Song of the Cid, and contrast those views with how Jews and Muslims actually interacted with Christians…

for the Jews. As a wandering child, Bruno is attacked by boredom and decides to go where the concentration camp is, where he…