Politics of Israel

Chapter 5 is broken up into three lessons. Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish. This lesion had to do with Joe Flom. He was known as the scholar who attended Harvard Law and was discriminated against for being Jewish when we applied for jobs. The limit in opportunity caused him to join the small new firm Skadden, Aprs, they worked with anything “came in the door to a generation of Jewish lawyers from the Bronx and Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s, then, was the work the white-shoe…

IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an…

World War Two broke out in the Middle East soon after conflict arose in Europe during the Fall of 1939. The main theater of war in the Middle East was the Western Desert that buffered Italian Libya and British Egypt. Conflict also arose with rebellion in Iraq as consequence of growing western resentment, and in Syria and Lebanon after French defeat and capitulation to the Nazis. After Britain lost its longtime ally, France, they were left standing alone in the Middle East as the last defense…

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it states, “In addition to the SS, German-government, military, and Nazi party...many ordinary people-servants, doctors, lawyers, judges, soldiers, and railroad workers-played a role in the Holocaust (Common Questions About the Holocaust). This quote expresses that Hitler was not the only person behind the Holocaust. This quote also shows that during the Holocaust, Hitler had Nazis in positions from the head of the Gestapo to Auschwitz…

The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel.…

As Anne Frank once said, “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again,” applies to the screenplay “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett because of the moral that is conveyed to us by the author. The “Diary of Anne Frank” is about a Jewish thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank who goes into hiding with her family and family friends whose names are Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Mr. Van Dann, Mrs. Van Dann, Peter and Mr.…

Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, is one of the greatest fictional stories due to his amazing way of portraying a fictional character in facing a problem that was dealt with during the time of WWII. The story is focused around the time of the year 1960. When an 18-year-old boy named Elisha is bound to become an assassin at dawn. After his survival in World War II, he has settled in Palestine and joined a Jewish underground movement. Elisha is then commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken…

The Cruel Final Solution There was a conference that was known as Wannsee, that was held in Berlin, 1942. At the Wannsee conference, the SS, subdivisions, handled what was known as the Final Solution that targeted the Jews. The conference was brought up to light in the film Conspiracy, where the Final Solution was agreed upon Hitler’s fifteen men who debated the pros and cons of what was to be done to the Jews. In addition, the Final Solution determined what was going to happen to the Jews,…

The men show all that has been done within the gulag during one normal day with all the activities that have occurred. During the Stalin era, conditions were poor with people getting beat up and thrown in the cell with having to reason behind, having the audience being treated similarly to animals. Although the conditions destroyed the men by making them suffer, Solzhenitsyn shows how strong, the men truly are including what gets them through their days. The comparisons exemplify how brutally…

Imagery in Night by Elie Wiesel The memoir Night narrates perhaps, the most infamous action human history: the Holocaust, in the eyes of a young boy. Now dead, Elie Wiesel describes his experiences on an attempt to exterminate members of Judaism. Night is based on the childhood experiences of Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust. Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania before the start of the second world war. Elie Wiesel was a very religious young boy in his Jewish community. In 1944 the…