Zionism

World War II was a significant part of history which lasted from 1939 to 1945, this war had great impact to the world we live in now. During the war the human rights of a person changed greatly. The human rights before World War II only related to the king and the people who he liked. After this event occurred the changes to human rights changed significantly as the United Nations came together to make a European Convention on Human rights. The United Nations have a total of 30 rights that…

Modernity and globalization have increased drastically in the past few centuries. Some religions have responded openly and positively while other religions have ended up being split into camps; one side welcoming modernity and globalization, with the hopes of a larger following, and the other fearing secularization and infringement on sacred traditions. Religions you can See being impacted by modernity include Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. With Christianity being one of the biggest…

“lesser Jihad means ‘have to use arms’ if someone attacks you, use jihad to protect themselves… when the attacker stops, then they stop” (class notes). There was often a misconception about the meaning of Jihad that it only meant violence, however this was the minor meaning. The major meaning of jihad is an internal struggle. This goes all the way back to Mohammed Abdullah; the creator of Islam. Before this the Middle East was very separate and chaotic; Mohammed created a place for unity at the…

Religion, or a belief in a higher power, is a tradition and custom that has existed for an inordinate amount of time, existing in many different forms and each form coming with its own practices and beliefs. Religion is meant to bring the practicer peace, however, not all religions have coexisted peacefully throughout time. People have been persecuted, beaten and even killed for simply practicing their religion and believing in their form of a higher being, or beings. In the works The…

In Lincoln’s work Discourse and the Construction of Society, he discusses how communities of people choose different moments in history to define themselves. These historical moments often represent the community’s core values and creates the stigma of us versus them. This idea of us versus them can be explained as a group that isolates itself from the rest of the world in a way to conserve or define its cultural identity. In Davison’s work Myth and the Periphery, he took a different angel on…

Jews and commentary on Jewish tradition and law sparked the eighteenth century phenomenon of the Haskalah. The change in Jewish practice and theology marked the start of the modern period in Jewish history, bringing new concepts such as new sects, Zionism and integration with society. Arguably, it is the biggest change to take place since the transition away from Temple worship and sacrifice. However, both continuity and change must unite to keep history going; one can not stay the same forever,…

It took me 40 years to become a Jew. When I was a child, I wasn’t a Jew and not only because I never went to a synagogue. My father’s family had abandoned their religion so he wasn’t Jewish. More to the point, my mother and my grandmother weren’t Jewish either, so according to orthodox Judaism’s principles of matrilineal descent, it was impossible for me to be a Jew. All I had was the “Cohen” name. I once asked my parents why they had not changed it. After saying, quite rightly, that you should…

Dorotka Goldstein Roth Dorotka Goldstein Roth, was a Jewish girl born in Warsaw, Poland on February 1st, 1932. Miss Roth, the youngest of three children in her family had a very charismatic father. Mr. Roth believed in Zionism, this meant that he reasoned that Jewish people should go back to Palestine because that’s was where the holy land of Israel was, their true home. Dorotka’s father, in addition to be a Zionist, was a very caring man, he even built a soap kitchen for Jewish refugees in…

Compared with the Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 77 (1948), and Quartet no. 4 op. 83 (1948), the oratorio Song of the Forests op. 81 is seemingly foreign due to the optimistic atmosphere of the oratorio, the simple melody, the modes, and the original text of the song no. 7 that praises Stalin as a gardener. Therefore, the oratorio Song of the Forests op. 81 has a widely accepted staple as a proof of Shostakovich’s ultimate submission to the regime. The analysis shows that the oratorio also has…

There has been a centuries old conflict between the Muslim Arabs and the Israeli Jews over the rights of ownership to the holy land. Arabs and Jews began to express nationalism for their religious beliefs which was part of the reason for the conflict between the two sides. Because of this the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensified in the 1940s and has expanded with much violence on both sides in the 2000s. On May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from Palestine and the Jewish National Council…