Who is a Jew? Essays

Milkweed was wrote by Jerry Spinelli. This is a story of an orphan in 1930s Poland who is very naïve and knows nothing. Not who he is, who other people are, nothing of the world around him. He knows only that he is small and fast and able to snatch food right from under the noses of the people it belongs to. He is eventually taken in by a gang of orphan kids, and becomes the special ward of one in particular, Uri. I really loved Uri's character. He's generous, kind, wise beyond his years, in tune

Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, The main characters, Jem and Scout, who were just kids about ten years old, learn that they should “stand in other people’s shoes” and think for other people. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a book about Scout growing up learning new thoughts, values, moral, and compassion. The story take place in the 20th century in a southern place called Maycomb County. In the story, there is a character named Arthur Radley, who Jem and Scout always called

by Mark Twain, the author criticizes the South before the Civil War using satire through slavery/racism and religion/superstition. Mark Twain uses satire through slavery/racism in the South to expose and criticize human failings. The black professor who is smart, wealthy, owns white clothes, and has the right to vote, leads Pap to ridicule him out of jealousy. Twain uses irony because Pap does not know why the black professor is so much better than him and has freedom, even though Pap drinks and ridicules

Zegota The Zegota was a group of brave people who saved thousands of lives and risked their own lives in the process to save others during World War Two while the Nazi were causing formidable views into the people. The Zegota helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi controlled europe demonstrating that more people should have been saved by others standing up to the Nazis. Background The Zegota was a government financed organized in Europe that hid Jews during World War Two why would people risk their

end. This is what the Jews imprisoned in the Holocaust felt. The Holocaust was the organized and systemic killing of Jews by the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. Millions of Jews were taken from their homes and forced into concentration camps, where they were forced to work and later murdered in cold blood. This was carefully orchestrated by Hitler and the Nazi government. Besides Adolf Hitler, the top SS officers who developed the Final Solution, leaders of Allied Countries who were aware of what was

the non-Jews to the Nazi Regime during World War II, was to help the hide Jews, sabotage the Nazi efforts, and help to save as many Jews as possible. This affected the Holocaust, by saving hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives. Many people wanted to help the Jews, and save them. The non-Jews that acted were the brave ones, who put their words to actions. The Nazi Regime was a new political party that came into power. Many Jews feared their lives, because of the leader thoughts towards Jews. Once the

World War II provoked the start of the Holocaust and the large-scale murder of innocent Jews. The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, drove an immense number of families out of their homes, causing them to starve and suffer. Hitler turned countless people against the Jews after blaming them to disguise his failure in losing World War I. Hitler was humiliated and out for vengeance, so he invaded Poland to kick off the start of World War II. Many people disagreed and formed plans to assassinate Hitler, but

Anti–Semitism is hostility or prejudice against Jews as a religious or ethnic group (Allswang, 1985). This racism was the cause of the shocking discriminations against the Jewish people. This is a discrimination is form which can be traced by the early years of Christianity (F. Jackson and K. Lake, Beginning of Christianity, 5 vols. 1920-33). In the era of Adolf Hitler, hatred towards the Jews had led to genocide. Between 1948-1935, six million Jews were killed as a result of this (Charney, 2000)

individuals. Most Jews in the Holocaust couldn’t survive by themselves without being captured and that’s where rescuers come in. Rescuers during the Holocaust took in Jews, giving them a hiding place, food, and shelter, kept someone being a Jew a secret, or just hid someone’s star of David to save them from the authority. Even though rescuing a Jew in the Holocaust risked the Jew’s life, the rescuer’s life, and the rescuer’s family’s life, many continued to save lives of the Jews. It took courage

of the Jews, and other smaller groups such as homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses, which lived in the country of Germany. The events that took place during the holocaust were lead by a German man named Adolf Hitler. Schindler's List is a film about the Holocaust from a man named Oskar Schindler's perspective as a leader of a concentration camp. The film displays the five stages of the Holocaust. These five stages include when life became uncomfortable for the Jews, violent life for the Jews, isolation

States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Nazi racism resulted in the persecution and mass murder of six million Jews and millions of other people.” Before World War II, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany where he sparked Nazism and started the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an attempt to rid the world of Jews, since Hitler was convinced they were an inferior and parasitic race. Not only were Jews killed by the Nazis, but they were also dehumanized. This dehumanization was done through things such as separating

terms, Jews are those who experienced their long and often difficult history as a continuous dialogue with God. In a religions sense, Israel refers to all those who answer the call of God, through the Torah or teaching given to the patriarchs, Moses, and the prophets. Christianity can simply be defined as all people who accept the belief that Jesus, a Jew, was born and died to fulfill the Jewish Old Testament prophecy. The prophecy in the Old Testament was that of a savior sent by God who would be

life of a young Jew who survived, spoke out against the silence, and shared what life was like in the concentration camps. Some may argue that it just symbolizes dark and misfortune, but it goes a lot deeper than just depressing words. It represents what the Holocaust stood for, and what Jews experienced while in the concentration

In the story Teens againsts Hitler By Lauren Tarshis is about a boy named Ben Kamm who survived and experienced the harsh fel events of the Holocaust, and how he joined the partisans and fought back and saved many Jews from the horrifying events of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an event that Hitler a German leader placed upon his own country. Hitler placed knowledge on many believing that he was one of germany's best leaders in the text it states some reasons about how Hitler became a german

of Jews were persecuted for multiple years for no reason. Some were worked and beaten until death. During the time of prosecution many people and countries worked hard to rescue the Jews. Individuals risked their life in order to rescue them. Millions of people died during the Holocaust. Many Individual people, groups and countries risked their lives to rescue Jews during that time. It was a time of sorrow and despair for Jews, There are numerous stories of brave people in other countries who also

The Jews of the Second Temple period, occurring between 538 BCE and 70 BC, were exposed to many outside cultures that threatened their existence as a political, spiritual, and peaceful people. Politically, the Jews were governed against their will by many foreign leaders such as the Roman monarch Herod Agrippa and the Greek king Antiochus. Spiritually, the Jews were deprived of many of their religious traditions and pushed towards alien beliefs and practices. The Jews who had tried beforehand to

The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and mass murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime that took place during World War two between 1941 and 1945. People throughout this time can be categorized into groups as perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and resistors. All of these groups had involvement in the holocaust and changed it either for the better or worse. The film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg and the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, both depict how

as the attempts to save lives of Jews who were being killed and dispatched to concentration camps. In the movie we see Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, trying to save lives of Jews because he argues that they were necessary for his factory to increase in profit and be successful. According to David M. Crowe, Oskar Schindler didn’t have much to do with the list that was created. The only contribution Oskar had with the list was to suggest names of those who he wanted to save. After watching

Ellie Perlmutter The Jews of North Africa Dr. Jay 2 February 2023 Universality and its Effect on the Jewish Community During the Ottoman Tanzimat from roughly 1839-1896, the Jewish community experienced two distinct moments of universality. In one case, there was the establishment of Jewish schools by French Jewish elites and philanthropists in the Ottoman Empire. There was also the Damascus Affair which brought some of the same French Elites to fight for the accused Jews. In both of these cases

Jews that were taken away from their homes were all put in train cars and barely had any room. The train cars had no windows and one door that unlocks from the outside. Many Jews were taken into ghettos and Concentration camps filled with people and slept in bunk beds. Many of the Jews were adults and were separated from their kids because they are adults and everyone was separated by gender. Many of the Jews didn’t get enough food so some of them snuck out to get food. There were many heroes during