Persian Jews

The movie began with Schindler filling his factory with Jewish workers. He claimed that he wanted the free labor, and that it was better for everyone this way because the Jews would be helping the war efforts with their work. However, not everyone bought Schindler’s story. He had to get creative and pull strings to get what he wanted. It required playing his cards at the right time and with the right people. One wrong…

This form of resistance was the idea of survival in itself, for every live saved was how the Jews combated Hitler. With this in mind many Jews hid and tried to preserve their culture as best the could during years of hiding. There was one specific resistance group that was especially good at this, Chug Chaluzi. Though this was the most prominent Jewish specific resistance…

knowing. He didn’t let Shmuel die by himself. They held hands and it gave them both strength. And he proved a serious point to his father. Bruno died the way his father thought a Jew should die. In a way maybe there was some redemption for the Jews. In a horrible way and without trying Bruno proved that he was just like the Jews and he died with them. He proved that they are all human and innocent. It was a major hit to Ralf and his family that their son was killed by a method in which they so…

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of…

begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel inferior by removing the basic human right to freedom, crushing faith in the existence of God and scarring them with the…

Marc Chagall was an artist who was not defined by his present surroundings, but one who drew directly from his rich cultural past. Chagall was an artist of Belarusian Jewish descent who spent his formative years in a small Hassidic community where he was directly inspired by the rural scenes so essential to his artistic identity. Chagall is hard to categorize into one style or movement, he borrows many visual elements of Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He has his own personal,…

The Jewish people have been marked by violence and persecution unlike any other group of humans in mankind long and often troublesome history. Rather it be at onset of great empires like Rome or at the hands of sadistic rulers like Hitler, the Jews have been face with grave circumstances there entire existence. Yet for reasons some would consider divine intervention and others would simply associate as luck the Jewish race and culture has survived and often times thrived throughout history.…

When we think of the greats in literature, we think of Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Jack London. Though these are not the only names that can convey meaning in the written word. Children’s books are essential in this way, on the surface, they may not look to be anything other than simplistic entertainment, though they are truly rich with deeper meaning. These brightly decorated pieces of literature are vital to children learning about how the world works. They can teach…

“Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them.” For this reason, the conditions in the concentration camps were gradually taking away Eliezer’s every quality and attributes that made him human. For example, in the novel Night, Elie lost his sense of self during the Holocaust through his suffering and despair because his identity gets stripped away, he lost his connection and his faith in God, and he no…

that when the Jews wanted God to send them down someone they were not satisfied with what God had in store for them. Lastly we see who the messiah God sent is, and how that after most people walked away from the Lord, some were still choosing to follow. As this book goes into great detail addressing all those topics I just mentioned, the overall theme is showing us what a messiah is and what the importance of one is from the point of view of a believer, while still being aware of the Jews…