Soloman Schultz Essay

     David Berkowitz was one of the most feared killers in New York City in the 1970's. His crimes caused the death of six people, and the injuries to seven others. His crimes became legendary because of the bizarre content in the letters that he wrote to the police and the media and his reasons for committing the attacks. David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam, is a man with a troubled childhood and upbringing. From his many “Parental Figures” to believing that dogs were telling him to kill. During his reign of killing the police felt the pressure to catch David. "Operation Omega" was formed, which was comprised of over 200 detectives – all working on finding the Son of Sam before he killed again.

Anti-semitism was one of the factors that lead to the horrific genocide, yet this genocide began with the spread of words and ideas from “Hitler’s” point of view. He started the spread of hate. On November 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores throughout Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht or “The Night of Broken Glass” was a time of horror. Germans (Nazis) invaded Jewish communities and destroyed everything Jewish. The Nazis wanted to strike fear into the Jewish people, so they destroyed

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

The Soviet communists’ forced removal of the Russian peasants and the Nazi’s deportations and execution of European Jews were only the most dramatic examples of this development.

According to his article, “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins In The Home”, the author, columnist and blogger Daniel Weintraub, argues parents, not fast-food companies or the government are responsible for their child's health and well being. Weintraub supports this claim by providing data from the Center For Public Health Advocacy on the subject of overweight schoolchildren, State law recommendations outlining nutritional standards, and his own experience with the problem. Weintraub intends to convince or persuade the parents or parent to accept the blame for their overweight child. From my standpoint, however, it is clear the

Racial antisemitism was born in the Nineteenth Century when laws were passed in many European countries posing the Jewish people as second-class citizens, not receiving the same rights as others in society. While they had reached a level of religious emancipation in some countries, Judaism had become recognized as an ethnicity as well, and this ethnic difference from the Aryans therefore made them “inferior.” Pogroms began across Eastern Europe in the late 1800’s which resulted in

One of the most well known attacks on the Jews was known as Night of Broken Glass. On the November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across Germany. The Germanys tried to make it appeared like the violence was an unplanned attack, set off by the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm

Overpowering Hate & Intolerance Throughout the Holocaust During World War II, more than 11 million people’s lives were lost due to hate and intolerance. In Nazi Germany, the Jewish population and other minorities were severely oppressed. Many were sent to concentration camps or shot by death squads, and a lucky few got out alive by going into hiding. But despite the harsh conditions, people resisted and refused to give into the immense hatred that resulted in the loss of so many innocent lives. Even though so many people faced intolerance, many more fought it.

One student made a very moving presentation about his great-grandparents, who hid Jewish families near the village of Grichivich in the former Soviet Union (Belarus today) and who Israel and Yad Vashem honored as Righteous Among the Nations. This student has been so proud of his great-grandparents that he is in the process of converting to Judaism.

Many were then taken to ghettos, concentration camps to work, or be killed (Mayberry). Few rebelled, while others either couldn’t, or failed. Germany began murdering all of the Jewish besides foreigners who were labeled as a “Jew”. Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass” was a massive, coordinated attack on the Jews, and was a night never

The Holocaust of 1933-1945, was the systematic killing of millions of European Jews by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis) (Webster, 430). This project showed the treacherous treatment towards all Jews of that era. Though many fought against this horrific genocide, the officials had already determined in their minds to exterminate the Jews. Thus, the Holocaust was a malicious movement that broke up many homes, brought immense despair, and congregated great discrimination. The Holocaust was an act of Hell on earth.

Anti-Jewish measures and pogroms have taken place numerous times throughout history, but never to the extent and successfulness attained by the Third Reich. A clear reason for this level of success can

The Russian Pogroms of 1881 were a series of devastating events in Eastern European Jewish history. The 1881 pogroms immediately followed the assassination of Czar Alexander II. Due to industrialization, the Russian government plunged into turmoil, and the masses were living impoverished and discontented lives. The assassins were a radical group called Narodnaya Volya, consisting entirely of Atheists, only one who was born Jewish. Anti-Semitic groups claimed the Jews were the ones who killed Czar Alexander II. Riots ensued: Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed, and people were killed and injured. Historians debate whether the 1881 pogroms were really just a spontaneous reaction to the assassination of Czar Alexander II, or whether they

Are having straight A’s in school a necessity to achieve success in today’s society? I believe that children should be able to live their childhood as a child, compared to living like an adult. Being a child, you learn to develop into your own being. Children are developing morals, values, and goals while dreaming for the future is a part of life and should not be taken away. Imagine being told you could only receive straight A’s and only attend an Ivy League school to be successful in life. Patrick Goldstein’s “Tiger Mom vs. Tiger Mailroom,” which first appeared in Times on February 6, 2011, emphasizes how you can be successful in life with or without attending college and receiving a degree.

As if that were not enough, “Between 1648 and 1658, in organized massacres called pogroms, over 700 Jewish communities were destroyed. Jewish deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands” (Esposito 107). Finally I learned of the Spanish Inquisition where Jews were once again treated as something separate from humanity. “Many were tortured and burned at the stake. The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492” (Esposito 108). They endured this suffering for no crime they committed. They endured this suffering because of their faith. It is unfathomable to me. The Jews have a long history of violence against them and of others trying to eradicate them, a history that I was not fully aware of until this class.