Persian people

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of…

The Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis and robbed of hope and faith in God. The novella “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel…

Marc Chagall was an artist who was not defined by his present surroundings, but one who drew directly from his rich cultural past. Chagall was an artist of Belarusian Jewish descent who spent his formative years in a small Hassidic community where he was directly inspired by the rural scenes so essential to his artistic identity. Chagall is hard to categorize into one style or movement, he borrows many visual elements of Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He has his own personal,…

dramatically. Items from India, China, and Iran passed easily across the Asian steppes, and these contacts culturally enriched Iran. For example, Iranians developed a new style of painting based on a unique fusion of solid, two-dimensional Mesopotamian painting with the feathery, light brush strokes and other motifs characteristic of China. After Ghazan's nephew, Abu Said, died in 1335, Iran again lapsed into petty dynasties the Salghurid, Muzaffarid, Inju, and Jalayirid, under Mongol…

life has always been. In Collins, Yeskel, and the United for Fair Economy and Class Action’s (2013) reading, they state that having wealth is very important for people to have something to fall back on and to pass to their children. The reading also talked about how race plays an important role determining who has or can get wealth. White people have more wealth and it has been like this for a very long time, according to the information in the reading. I can see how Mr. D can be cocky because…

documented his travels through explanation of the people, geographical nature, culture and the existence of the Jewish populations. He was connected to his religion more than many and throughout his travels he took particular attention to each Jewish community he encountered. He observed their customs in relation to his own, the size of the communities and the leaders who where in charge. This was very fascinating for the time period. Most Jewish people were able to travel in Christian and…

is also great emphasis on teachers in Potok’s books. As Potok has enrolled in religious schools, he most likely saw the teachers as a figure of great influence. Overall, Potok places great emphasis on the spiritual life and how that brings together people, forming deep bonds; but during his time, the minorities were still fighting for their rights, so it often times the communities were scattered. There were still many Jews from other counties that did not have anywhere near the same freedom as…

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.…

are obvious because of the straightforward style of the text. Using this book we can learn about how the Jewish culture has been prosecuted since day one, and that we as a culture and community, need to help to end blind hatred against any group of people. Bias against the Jewish faith and race were obviously the main theme of the beginning of this book, though by the end one has learned about how a history of events may be shared and reinforced through celebrations. There are Rabbis who say “in…

Elie states, “The absent no longer entered our thoughts…” (Wiesel 36) After this he says that people only speak about the absent, but their fate didn’t cross his mind, because he was too busy thinking about his life. Not only him, but all of the Jews were incapable of thinking, their senses were numbered, they no longer clung to anything, their instincts…