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The story of the Local Charters, specially relating to Bishop Rudiger of Speyer, demonstrates Elukin’s theory of successful integration and relations between Christians and Jews in a local scaled setting. In 1084, a population of Jews departed from Maize because of a fire they feared to be blamed for, and were welcomed by the city of Speyer in Germany. Bishop Rudiger offered the Jews kindnesses such as safety, the right to practice their religion, the right to sell meat and good, and the right to have a legal status. The Jews not only were welcomed into the city, but helped the city thrive economically due to their rights to loan money with interest, rights that Christians do not have. The Jews spoke

Throughout the world, there is an estimate of about 65.3 million refugees that have either been forced out of their homes or chose to willingly escape the violence or corruption they faced in their homeland. Of those millions of people, only a small percentage are given the status of refugee as many nations have strict requirements and only allow a specific amount each year. This leads to an increase in the amount of illegal immigration as many are desperate to risk their lives to for a better one then they had back home. Even as refugees are given asylum, many often face difficulties such as discrimination due to the racial stereotypes that exist as a result of negative depictions in the news and media. Although nations have generally become more open to receiving and providing aid for a significant amount of refugees seeking asylum, people’s ideology of race and the misrepresentation of the media towards immigrants prevent an even larger amount of refugees from being accepted into society.

Consistent with Rossel, Germany has had a past of anti-Semitism, starting in 1542 when the great German Protestant leader Martin Luther wrote a booklet called Against the Jews and Their Lies. Even earlier the Catholic Churches had taught that the Jewish people killed Crist and should therefore be hated (10). Early teachings of anti-Semitism lead to a hating of the Jewish community, but with the German’s calling themselves the “Aryan Race” and the Jewish people calling themselves the “chosen one’s” there was bound to be competition on who was superior.

This is due to its relatively homogeneous population of 5.4 million, a strong sense of national identity, and the fact that, until recently, immigration flows were moderate. Most immigrants in Denmark came from other Nordic or Western countries, and the country experienced more emigration than immigration. The problems the Danish welfare state faces in terms of integrating immigrants are rooted in two interconnected phenomena. One is that the government and the public believe the continued success of Denmark depends on cultural homogeneity. The second is that policies of entry and integration have been inadequately geared to distinguishing between different "categories" of immigrants (e.g. economic migrants versus refugees, male versus female immigrants, Muslim versus non-Muslim), and have also been unprepared for the increase in the number of refugees and family dependents. However, since politicians and the public are beginning to realize that Denmark will need more immigrants in order to cope with the an ageing population and to ensure a sufficient supply of skilled as well as unskilled workers to a booming economy, there are a number of concrete changes in immigration policies. They include automatic citizenship for children born and raised in Denmark, regardless of their parents’ citizenship; equal welfare rights for immigrants and Danes; vast reductions in application fees and cash securities; expanded work benefits

Europe’s Growing Anti-Semitism is written by Mike Ross, and was published on October 20, 2014. In this article, Ross explains the disturbing anti-Semitic acts that are taking place in Europe and the effects it is having on Jewish communities. For example, in France three Jewish children and a rabbi were murdered in a Jewish school, four people were shot in a Jewish museum in Brussels, and violent riots have emerged outside numerous synagogues in Europe. Due to these

“Those who had no choice but to flee for their survival and the survival of their families became refugees, seeking safe havens in other parts of Europe and beyond. At first, Jews were allowed to settle in neighboring countries such as Belgium, France, and Czechoslovakia, but as German occupation spread across the continent, these countries were no longer safe and refugees became increasingly desperate to escape. The life of Jewish refugees was described in this way: “[The refugees] were welcomed nowhere and could be assimilated nowhere. Once they had left their homeland they remained homeless, once they had left their state they remained stateless; once they had been deprived of their human rights they were right-less, the scum of the earth” (America, 2017).

As millions of Jews were being corralled and killed by the Nazi regime during the height of Hitler’s power from 1931 to 1945, millions more were attempting to flee to other countries to escape. Many were not welcome by Western Democracies, and of all these countries who eventually went on to defeat Hitler Canada had perhaps the worst record, taking in a scant five thousand Jews, compared to the hundreds of thousands of Britain and the United States. Despite its vast tracts of land, and abundant Natural Resources, and history of a moderate and liberal Nation Canada refused to help those that needed it the most. This essay will examine this important historical issue in the following way, first it will look at the rise of and prevalence of anti-Semitism during the war in both English and French Canada, then it will look at Canada’s reaction to refugees during and after the war, before finally coming to a conclusion about how Canada treated Jewish refugees and why. This paper will argue that Canada treated Jewish refugees profoundly unfairly, and that they were treated this way due to deep seated racial hatred in Canada.

Similarly, “The Nazi claim that Germany was being ‘Judaized’ can hardly be substantiated” as Germany’s Jewish inhabitants in 1933 made up a mere “.80 percent of the total population” (Foster 15).

The 1930s, commonly called “The Thirties” was the best and worst decade. It was the home of swing music, butterfly sleeves, and Roosevelt’s presidency. The 1930s also saw lots of new technologies in the radio and film fields. But amongst the great times, there was lots of tragedy. The Dust Bowl, the Ku Klux Klan, and the start of the Great Depression are just to name a few of the many disasters in the 1930s. In the midst of this, the United States and Germany had very many legislative problems. Both countries had objectives of making their societies better by “removing the inferior”. This is when Nazi Germany and America started creating laws to target Jews and Blacks.

Everyone knows that America is the land of freedom, the melting pot, where many come in search of the American Dream. Some have fled from persecution, others to support their families; they all have their own reasons. There will always be pros and cons wherever one may live, depending on where, how diverse, and the environment. Living in America as a Hispanic Jew can be challenging due to the anti-Semitism they face, being multicultural, and foreign-born.

Aarhus is a city in central Denmark that has accepted Somali refugees to come and get away from the terror group known as ISIS. Initially, the town was very peaceful after the refugees arrived, but soon discrimination started to emerge. Many of the refugees couldn’t handle it any longer and after some time, police noticed that a number of refugees were leaving Aarhus to join the terror group they originally fled. Most surrounding countries would not tolerate this kind of behavior and would brutally punish those who left, seeing them as traitors to the state. Aarhus, on the other hand, took another approach and instead of punishing those who left, they let them know that they were allowed to come back at any time without consequences. Surprisingly, this worked, many of those who left the terror group saw their mistake and came back only to feel as though they were welcomed and could actually start a new life. In an article written by Hanna Rosin she describes this program and shows that if you never give up on people, they can make their own life better: “Since the initial exodus of young people, very few have left from Aarhus for Syria”. Some situations can seem very similar in some aspects and seem vastly different in others. For example, the previous story about Aarhus, Denmark, and the article written by Steve Baron on inmates who saved three boys from drowning are very different situations.

In the Luis de Carvajal reading, the idea of what it means to be a Jew is explored. To provide some background, Luis de Carvajal (the Younger) was a crypto-Jew, or a secret Jew, who lived in New Spain during the time of the Inquisition. He was burned at the stake in December 1596, after being convicted of observing Jewish religious practices. The reading as a whole fundamentally delineates Luis’ desire to embrace his religion during a time in which people of the Jewish faith either had to either convert to Christianity or suffer persecution. Ultimately, Luis de Carvajal’s memoirs entail the concept that being a Jew involves the following: being loyal and devoted to the religion; carrying on Jewish traditions; feeling or developing a community with fellow Jews; and believing in one God and having a personal connection with Him.

In the late 19 century, early 20th century Refugees from Russia, especially Jews, Mennonites and Doukhobors, settled in Canada. The world had different opinions on this matter, but most of the world took it as an advantage. The world took it as an advantage because the refugees can help and boost the economy for the better. (Tess Fuller 1) The refugees come from different places all around the world meaning that they come from different work environments. People from different countries know different jobs better so that would help our economy because instead of having people working in one type of job we would have different people from different countries be able to come and help us with the jobs that we are not so strong at doing. Refugees can help with jobs like plumbers, construction workers, and accountants, while we are good at jobs like doctors, social workers, and teachers. By letting the refugees come into our country it would give more of a diversity to the jobs we are working in right now. It would help benefit the world because there are a lot of jobs on high demand and by letting them come into our country they can help us fill those jobs up.

Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, and occupied Denmark for the remainder of World War II. However, the Danish government was able to keep Germany from immediately deporting the approximately eight thousand Jewish citizens living in the country. On September 28, 1943, a German diplomat named Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

In the tumultuous period leading up to World War II, a series of laws were devised in Nazi Germany that subjected the Jewish people to prohibitory and discriminatory forms of treatment. Although the Jewish people only accounted for 503,000 of the 55 million occupants of the country, Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship preached the incorporation of anti-Semitism into law and practice in order to quell the people he considered to be the enemy of the country.