Who is a Jew?

trials and tribulations of the Jews as a whole during the Holocaust. The Jews had to endure harsh and critical conditions to survive. Jews were able to use their basic skills of survival to be able to manipulate peers and others. Even though they had been separated by gender and isolated they stuck together in some situations to help one another when they could. The Holocaust degraded the Jews down so bad that it basically dehumanized them to vermin. The mindset of the Jews varied over time and…

Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in Germany, and later through majority of German-controlled lands, Jews were forced into ghettos and then killed in the gas chambers, in many places throughout Europe Jews were gathered together, they were forced to dig a pit and were…

Wiesel is a Jew who survived the concentration camp. The book Night is his first novel. Wiesel since 1986 through writing "give individual attention to of all the widely condemned, hatred, violence and oppression"( "Elie Wiesel." Baidu Baike) and won the Nobel Peace Prize. The book talk about the atrocity of Nazi and the ugliness of humanity in front of the suffering. It is very dangerous when suffering becomes a habit.The suffer of Jews make Nazi more and more rampant and the suffer make Jews…

Holocaust is a Greek word meaning "scarified by fire." In 1933 the Nazi power started to grow and along with that power came the spread of their belief of anti-Semitism. They hated the Jews because they thought of them as an inferior race to the Germans. The goal of the Nazi power during this time was to eliminate anybody that was not a German or somebody they deemed racially superior. After World War 1 ended Germany was in chaos with over a dozen political parties trying to gain control. Some…

1939-1945 majority of the world including Germany were focused on WWII. Besides WWII there were many of innocent people who were encountering a different type of hurt. Hitler was punishing millions of Jewish people who were subject to being publicly humiliated, being forced to work through torturous conditions, concentration camps, and even extermination camps. In the extermination camps Jews killed by mass shootings, gas trucks, and gas chambers. World War Two was a big hurt to the Jewish…

was twelve years old. Wiesel and his family, along with many other Jews, were abducted by the Nazi’s and held hostage in concentration camps by the notorious leader, Adolf Hitler. Wiesel and all the other Jews were completely dehumanized. He said, “He felt naked as a Jew.” Hitler and the Nazi’s monopolized the situation, making all Jews feel degraded, that lead to the deaths of millions of Jews. In the book “Night”, the Jews had to overcome extreme difficulties due to the dehumanizing…

piece titled, “Reclaiming Jew” surfaces a societal problem. Jews do not feel comfortable introducing themselves as a noun. Instead of “I am a Muslim” or “I am a Christian,” secular Jews say “I am Jewish.” It is as if using the noun is too solid and prideful, whereas the adjective feels slippery and insecure. An adjective can simply describe an aspect about something, but the noun is. The underlying question of this preference in title is: where in history did the word “Jew” become pejorative and…

several contradictory ideas about the Jews. Despite these ideas, an important conclusion stated that anti-Judaists must tolerate yet segregate Jews, and that society must preserve Jews as witnesses to the bible. However, if Jews didn’t follow the bible, this opened the door to Jewish disenfranchisement, allowing anti-Judaism to cross the threshold towards harsher persecution. Thus, the term ‘antisemitism’ arose, an anachronism that incorrectly categorized the Jews per their ancestral language,…

G-d that we do and those who follow the teachings of their religions can be considered righteous in the eyes of G-d. Contrary to popular belief, Judaism does not maintain that Jews are better than other people. Although we refer to ourselves as G-d's chosen people, we do not believe that G-d chose the Jews because of any inherent superiority. According to the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 2b), G-d offered the Torah to all the nations of the earth, and the Jews were the only ones who accepted it. The…

million Jews, under the leadership of Hitler and the Nazi Party. Although the Holocaust took anti-Semitism to the extreme, anti-Semitism has prevailed for over two thousand years. The origins of anti-Semitism lay deep in human history, dating back to biblical times. Prior to the nineteenth century, anit-Semitism evolved from conflict over religious beliefs, into a policy of political and social exclusion and degradation. The common attribute of anti-Semitism through the ages is that Jews have…