Who is a Jew?

Inspiration to Survive Prejudice Judith Miller, a journalist who survived the Holocaust, once said about the Holocaust “It was not six million. It was one plus one, plus one…”(Miller). In the book, Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, Misha Piludski tries to attempt freedom from torture and punishments in a ghetto where he lives. Misha is frequently abused and insulted for possibly being a Jew. In the end, Misha escapes to the other side of “the wall”, often described a heaven. The reader learns…

Chinese individual who were already in the United States to become citizens. Just like numerous ethnic minority, Jewish people wanted to migrate to America for a better life. Back in Russia, Jews were treated badly. Just like any other minority, Jews were prohibited to own land and were seen as the outsiders. Jewish people believed there was another place they could call home that did not hate them as for being Jewish. That place was America. Compared to Italians, many Jewish people who…

explicitly proclaiming themselves the proud reincarnations of Hitler (signs with messages like “Hitler didn’t do his job”).The lawlessness occurred when the error made by the police caused the police to be accused of giving preferential treatment to the Jews. Yet according to a different source from Commentary magazine, written by Philip Gourevitch January 1st, 1993, it was stated that, “The previous day black rioters hurled rocks and bottles at a throng of Hasidim while policemen stood between…

by Adolf Hitler was quick with their work on exterminating as many Jews as possible. Hitler’s anger and jealousy quickly led to hatred and the desire to kill the Jews and anyone who stood in his way. Although he came from a very poor town in Vienna, he made sure his preposterous beliefs reached the ears of everyone he know, saw, and came in contact with. His motivation for his hatred of the Jews was his belief that the Jews had all the jobs…

The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis describes the life of a boy named Ben, who suffered, like many other Jews, due to the Nazis at the time of WW11. Ben Kamm and his family lived during the most horrific and terrifying circumstance that anyone has ever seen, the Holocaust. Ben and his family along with many other Jews were crammed into the ghetto. Thousands of Jews joined a group called the partisans planning on going up against Hitler and the Nazi. The partisans went on many…

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws was an uncivil legislation that was implemented by Adolf Hitler to terrorize the Jews and create a superior Aryan Race (johnsonapclass, n.d.). This speech will cover the political and economic conditions in which Hitler was raised to power, the implementation of the Nuremberg Race Laws, the affected minority and the success rating of this legislation. The severity of the increasing downfall of Germany after World War One was…

that he decided at this most sensitive time to publically blame Jews for the crime of trying to pray on the Temple Mount. There is no doubt that such an attitude both legitimizes and strengthens Arab violence with a rabbinic stamp of approval! In my eyes, Shafran’s comments border on the criminal and he should be condemned by all! In a recent article posted in Ha’aretz, Rabbi Shafran tries to place the blame of Arab violence on Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount in accordance with Jewish Law.…

listened to the podcast on the Dreyfus Affair. How does that episode fit in the anti-Semitism expressed during World War II, and what role does it play in the development of the idea of Europe? Anti-Semitism is a discrimination against Jews that it can be called anti-Jews. It is a fact that the Europeans discriminated religions, nations and races in the past, even before World War II. Alfred Dreyfus suffered from this discrimination before World War II. According to the podcast on the Dreyfus…

mass murder of Jews. “Those of us who received the first Jews did what we thought had to be done- nothing more complicated.” This displays how there was simply only one reaction- to help. There was no hesitation or buffer, this town as a whole accepted the Jews instead of letting them die to the hands of the Nazis. The decision to save Jews shaped history by showing others that they did not have to sit and watch with their hands tied behind their back but could stand up for the Jews and shelter…

Europeans did not understand the Jewish people well enough. Therefore, many false but popular stereotypes about Jews began to spread all Europe. Anti-Semitism used these stereotypes to delude people to discriminate against Jews. Edouard Drumont’s Jewish France and Adolf Hitler’s First Anti-Semitic Writing both used irrational arguments based on stereotypes to persuade people to hate Jews. In Europe, many people stereotyped the Jewish population as greedy and wealthy because most of them work in…