Essays on Anti-Semitism

JEWISH IDENTITY IN HISTORY AND MODERNITY2

1. The Sacrifice of Isaac by Rembrandt..2 2. Jewish Torah scroll..3 3. A Sephardic family celebrates the Passover4 4. Jews in the Middle Age..4 5. The origins of anti-Semitism..5 6. Abraham Geiger tries to change Judaism..5 7. Hirsch and Frankel oppose Judaism reformation..6 8. Jewishness and anti-Semitism7 9. Jews are always guilty7 10. Jews come back to their promised land8 III. DESCRIPTION OF THE EXHIBIT9

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I. SECTION LABEL The exhibit Let my people go: Jewish identity in history and modernity is dedicated to a longsuffering way of Jews who have been struggling for their identity for centuries while living ...

Is Schindler’s List Trivializing the Holocaust?

The movie, Schindler's List, has an essential place among the films about the Holocaust. The film is about a German saving almost 1300 Jewish people from the Holocaust (Leibovitz 2011). The story is a little confusing for some viewers because despite what many had learned about the Germans during the Nazi regime, it was a German who was helping the Jewish people. This implies that there was communication between the Jewish people and the Germans (Weinraub 2016). The existence of the communication between the two social groups might mean that a social solution could have developed during the Holocaust ...

Hate among men has had long and very deep historical roots. It has taken many forms by pitting people against each other. Its cultivation propagated by decades of fueling irrational fears against a particular race of individuals. Inbred ignorance has been the easy way to woo people into arousing hatred. There is now a mutual realization that most people possess inadequate knowledge about other nations and culture. In the days of old, fault lines were drawn along military pacts, geographical identities, and political ideologies, however in the recent centuries, it has taken a total shift and embraced one drawn ...

The judicial process in the United States of America has become flawed over the years. This has arisen from the fact that most of the American citizens have come out in large numbers condemning the prosecution and injustice to innocent men and women all over the country. As a result, legal scholars have had to engage with the public over issues such as racism, as well as the general degree of anti-Semitism in a bid to reduce the unlawful prosecution of innocent men and women in the United States. In this light, it is important to analyze the Leo ...

Abstract

Historical events have an impact on the lives of people living at the time, and those residing in the future. They also contribute to the evolution of societies in terms of their structure, attitudes, and preparedness for similar occurrences in the years to come. These events can be social, political, technological, economic, and ecological in nature. Nevertheless, one event can touch all these facets on either a minor or major scale. This paper explores some of the events that shaped human history, and their impacts on modern policymaking. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 revolutionized the way industrialized nations ...

Introduction

In July of 1938, delegates from thirty-two countries attended a meeting at the French town of Evian-les-Baines. The discussion they had was on how to aid the Jews who were fleeing the Nazi’s Third Reich as refugees. In March of 1938, the Nazi persecution of the Jews reached alarmingly horrifying proportionsi. Many of the attendees of the Evian-les-Baines meeting openly disclosed their sympathies they held of the Jews. However, most of the countries were not able to increase their quotas of taking in Jewish refugees into their lands. They came up with one excuse after another. Thus, the meeting ...

Article review: Pepper and partnerships

This article focuses on the journeys of Abraham bin Yiju, (1120-1160CE), a Jewish trader born in Tunisia. Trade in this time was quite advanced as can be seen in this chapter, Abraham used to trade in spices from Asia to Africa and the Mediterranean coast. Trade was mainly learnt through apprenticeships and Abraham was no exception as he was sent by his father to an apprenticeship for six years at the hands of a prominent trader Mahmud Ibn Bandar who was later to be his important partner in trade. The use of introduction letters by traders to other traders was ...

Abstract

Racism can be defined in many ways but basically racism is the prejudice or discrimination based on race. Since time immemorial racism has been the main cause of the many wars that America as a country has been going through. People can become racist either physically or verbally for example physical violation, intimidation or graffiti. Similarly, Anti Semitism can be defined as a term that is used to describe people who oppose the Jews. Just as racism, anti-Semitism is also discriminatory and it was first used during the holocaust. Racism has been the greatest obstacle that has hindered this country since ...

Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes with out-moded and old-fashioned beliefs. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can, therefore, present challenges to modern readers and audiences because, to a certain extent, Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic groups in a negative way: both plays contain characters with extremely racist attitudes which modern audiences are likely to find objectionable and highly offensive. The burning issue for readers and audiences is how far Shakespeare endorses the racist attitudes of the societies he portrays. This essay will show that, although both plays contain characters with racist attitudes, ...

Introduction

People usually have prejudices against each other. They will even engage in hateful behavior. It is not all times that hateful behavior leads to hate crimes. “People engage in hateful behavior…still, no one really believes a Columbia lecturer is about to be lynched” The statement is not however conclusive or true, due to hate, a Columbian lecturer may be killed. Hateful behavior may lead to crime. Hate crime is different than other crimes and therefore necessitates to be treated differently. There are several reasons why the penalties should be high for these crimes. It is a highly personal crime since an ...