While reading the book The Chosen many different theames came up. The one that impacted me the most and I have chosen to write about is Zionism. Throughout the years Zionism has grown and developed. The establishment of Zionism changed many Jewish lives wheather you were a Hassid or a tradition Orthadox Jew. This theme impacted the characters and the story a lot. Zionism is the establishment and protection of a new Nation designated for Jews. Zionism was used in the book because of Hitler and his ruin due to his hatred of Jews and the war he started. Reuven Malter's father David Malter felt very passionate about starting a new nation in Isreal and not waiting around for Messiah! He put in hours on end of work and commitment in order to get Zionism acknowleged and taken seriously throughout all of the different neighborhoods. He be came very ill while trying to get Isreal started but it worked. While he was ill things took a …show more content…
Just at the metion of it, which Reuven bring up at dinner one night, mkaes Reb very ferios and he doesn't think twice about expressing it. He shout and screams and voives his opinion pertaining to the subject. Just shortly after he finds out about David Malter and hip posion on Zionism, and the banned out on the firendship of Reuven and his son he created an anti-zionism group detecated to fighting the process of creating a new nation. he forbid anything and everything have to do with Zionism. Reb's group did not turn out as successfull as Davids contributions to the cause. When the new nation, Isreal is formed he stopped sending out pamphlets and allowed Reuven and his son to become social and friends. At the end of the book Reb atmitts his joy for Reuven becomg Danny's friends and explains his way of fatherhood based on his consernses. Zionism influendsed Reb by changing his opinion on the Malter's over and over again and by bringing out his true feeling and
In chapters 1-10 of Petey he became frustrated, because of the staff. Petey become upset when the staff carelessly feed him while he choked on his food. Also, the staff were rude, they called him an idiot, and the staff refused to think Petey had any feelings or thoughts. On page 36 the book reads, “Lying on his back he often choked on food, everyone ignored him blaming it on his spastic nature.”
This book’s time occurred during the Holocaust era when the Nazis were in power. This books really doesn’t offers any more insights about the holocaust that I didn’t know as this book revolved around Elhanan Rosenbaum and his son visiting his village. Three quotes that I’ve found unique or interesting were, “What does it matters? Only memory matters.
During this time period, the Jewish people were taken out of their homes, some were even killed, and put in Concentration Camps by German Nazis. These camps forced Jews to work in very dangerous and unsanitary areas. German soldiers were harsh and brutal to these people and showed no respect for them. The living conditions for the Jews were horrid and due to these conditions, this led to a large percentage of decrease in the population. A quote that was significant to this book is, “in the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”
Quote 1: Quote: According to Zinn, “I made clear my abhorrence of any kind of bullying, whether by powerful nations over weaker ones, governments over their citizens, employers over employees, or by anyone on the Right or Left, who thinks they have a monopoly on the truth" (7). Paraphrase: Zinn emphasizes that he doesn’t support the acts of the majority believing they have more power over the minority, politically. Partial Paraphrase: Zinn openly shares his contentious political views by declaring his “anger at racial inequality, my belief in a democratic socialism, in a rational and just distribution of the world 's wealth” (7).
Race is seen throughout this entire novel. The Holocaust is a sensitive and horrifying time in history for the Jewish community. It recognizes weakness, loss, and death. Starting of the novel, the setting seems relaxing and hopeful. The narrator mentions the German Nazi, but it does not interfere with the story.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir written to make the argument that his story matters and should not be repeated again. Through his book, it demonstrates the hardships he faced during his time in the camp and what he did in order to survive. Therefore the book provided a first hand experience and revelation of the events that occur. The Holocaust is a tragedy that was caused by the Nazi regime which believed that Germans were racially superior to the Jewish population. Nazi labeled the Jewish Community as a threat to German society, hence this event resulted in the death of over six million jewish people.
In “The Chosen,” Chaim Potok uses the relationship between Danny and Reuven to show the social and political problems that they dealt with. Reuven didn’t fully understand the Hasidic view on things; he asked his dad, Mr. Malter, many questions, that of which his dad knew most or just gave his opinions. Reuven was drug into Danny’s father, Reb Saunders’s, synagogue multiple times, where he learned more about the Talmud and the history behind the Hasidic religion. Reb Saunders’s was considered a tzaddik, by which everyone looked upon him as a god, but a tzaddik is just a pious leader that is a messenger between God and man. Also, with Reb Saunders being a tzaddik, he will have to pass down the role to his son, Danny.
A major object that appears in the setting is the barbed wire that circled like a wall. The yellow stars and the ID numbers the Jews were given were symbolic to the story. It shows the dehumanizing and labeling. It fits with the theme because the labeling was an example of inhumane behavior. The conflict is solved when American troops freed the Jews from Buchenwald and Elie was part of the group that was saved.
Israel gained its territory in wars but a big part of it was from the six-day war in 1967 where Israel conquered the east bank including Jerusalem from Jordan, Gaza strip and Sinai from Egypt (after a few years they gave it back to Egypt in order to have peace), and the Golan Heights from Syria (HISTORY: The State of Israel). The idea of a Jewish country was formed a long time before the Holocaust happened, due to the Holocaust the U.N, which made the decision of creating the country, agreed to the idea because of the discrimination of Jews. As a result, they thought that they deserved a country of their own. Since Israel was formed it participated in seven wars and two Intifadas.
When they meet at the baseball field they judge each other based on rumors they have heard or by the actions of the team. Reuven thinks of them as the “whole snooty bunch of Hasidim” (Chosen 62). Reuven thought Danny was a malicious person because he knew that Danny purposely tried to hit him. But later when Reuven opened up to Danny and stopped being so judgmental, Reuven realized that Danny was kind and just needed a friend. When Reuven is hit with the baseball, there is a chance he might be blind.
Theodor meant that the Jewish population around the world had the required ingredients to institute a new and efficient nation. Herzl and several other Zionist leaders believed that this issue
In his book The Promise Chaim Potok leads the reader on a heartbreaking journey full of spiritual conflict and decision. As a sequel to The Chosen, The Promise picks up with Reuven Malter, the main character and a Jewish man now in his mid-twenties, attending Hirsch University, a Jewish seminary in Brooklyn, New York. Reuven keeps his friendship with Danny Saunders, whom he met on a baseball field during his teenage years and later went to college with, even though they now go their separate ways as Reuven becomes a rabbi, and Danny practices psychology. During the summer Reuven dates Rachel Gordon, the niece of Abraham Gordon, a man excommunicated from the Jewish society, and meets Abraham’s son, Michael, a stubborn teen with a mental issue. Also, over the same summer Reuven’s father, David Malter, wrote a controversial book about the Talmud.
Max Nordau was one of the founders of political Zionism, and he stated in the late 1800s according to Naomi Cohen in the book Americanization of Zionism, “Zionism's only hope is the Jews of America.” Cohen also stated, "but for the financial support and political pressure of American Jews... Israel might not have been born in 1948. " The American Jews played a major role in the establishment of the State of Israel, and this was done by their financial support and political pressures they put on the government. This is reflected by many of the actions done by the presidents before Truman in regards to the establishment of the State of Israel.
“What Happened After Midnight” exile is caused from the war with the newly formed Israel, but interestingly the conflict that arises in the story is exploitation of the
After World War II, the Zionist State, Israel was founded on the land that partly owned by Palestinians. The newly created state served as a home country for the Jewish people. After what had happened under the rule of the Nazis, Jewish people all over the world agreed to reform