The Jews And The Jewish War

“The War Against The Jews” by Lucy Dawidowicz explores a very dark time in history and interprets it from her view. Through the use of other novels, she concurs and agrees to form her opinion. This essay will explore who Dawidowicz is, why she wrote the book, what the book is about, what other authors have explored with the same topic, and how I feel about the topic she wrote about. All in all, much research will be presented throughout the essay. In the end you will see how strongly I feel about the topic I chose. I believe that although Hitler terrorized the Jews, they continued to be stronger than ever, and tried to keep up their society.

The history of the State of Israel and the Holocaust strongly correlate with each other. For one to understand the State of Israel, one must look at in it relation to the Holocaust because Israel uses defence techniques that it would not feel necessary if not for the Holocaust, the Holocaust has changed the Jewish faith, and the Holocaust has caused issues with the overall view of the Jews.

For the remainder of the war, Josephus helped Titus, Vespasian’s son, with the matters of the Jewish war. He helped him understand the Jewish nation and helped with negotiations. He pled with Jerusalem to surrender to the Romans. They called him a traitor.

Despite his genius, Chief Joseph was unable to succeed in winning the freedom of his people. His people lost their land and were forced to live where the government told them to. Many of them lost their lives due to illness after they were moved away from their home for generations. Chief Joseph is said to have died of a broken heart because he was unable to protect his people and

The holocaust had a major effect on Judaism as a whole. This conflict between tragedy and faith is not new. Jewish history shows us that the jewish people have undergone the most terrible persecutions and genocide at the hands of many oppressors. Whether it be about the pogroms, crusades, destruction of the Temples, the jewish people have been at the brunt of the most terrible atrocities, and yet this does not shake their faith,Anti-Semitism was nothing new. This became even more evident with the unmasking of the holocaust.The philosophical question of “Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?” applies just as much to the seemingly useless suffering of an individual as to that of six million individuals. If it could be dealt with on an individual basis before the Holocaust, why couldn 't it be dealt with in the same way afterwards? The difference is one of quantity, but the quality of the question remains the same.

This website refers to the thousands of people killed during the Holocaust. During 1933 when the Nazis came to power they believed that Germens were “racially superior” and the Jews seemed “inferior.” This made the Jews seem to be a threat to the German radical community. During this time Germans targeted not only Jews but people because of their perceived “racial inferiority” and just anyone who had something wrong with them (gypsies, the disabled, some Slavic people, Poles, Russians, and others.) Also other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, (Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.) By 1945 the Germans killed nearly 2/3 of every European Jew as part of the “Final Solution,” which

Expanding out from Titus, Josephus is quick to praise the power and abilities of the Romans in general, even recounting their “natural mildness,” (Wars3.346). He approves of their skills in war-mongering, writing, “ I shall describe the good order of the Romans in war, and the discipline of their legions,” and their kindheartedness towards the Jews even in wartime. “The Romans,” he explains to “seditious” Jews resisting the Roman siege, “who had no relation to [the Temple], had a reverence for their sacred rites and places, although they belonged to their enemies, and had till now kept their hands off from meddling with them; while such as were brought up under them, and, if they be preserved, will be the only people that will reap the benefit

Resistance: it takes many forms, from the simplest denial to an armed revolt. The Jews exhibited almost every form of resistance against the

The World War II started in the late 1930s. The war mainly affected Europe and Asia the neighboring nations. Following the NAZI xenophobia against the Jews, there was continuous mass murder against the Jews, which forced most of them to migrate to buffer zones and those that had the ability migrated to other continents. The government of the United States had signed a quota with the Austrian government, as a way to take care of the refugees, but the government did not act on the matter until late in 1944 when President Franklin Roosevelt recognized the problem due to the pressure coming from the Jewish community in the United States and some officials that made it possible

The Jews in Judea were known as subjects to the Romans but a time came and they started rebelling. The army or Rome brought down the temple led by their leader Titus in an attempt to make the bow to their masters and end the rebellion. The temple was a sacred building that the Jewish people held in much regard and guarded it but it was brought down. Before the inner part of the temple was destroyed, Ceaser ordered troops to stop but their hate for the Jews did not stop them. These people believed that their God would save them during battle but they were still defeated.

This is one principle that was most certainly not met by the Zealots – an extremist, militaristic sect of Jews who were determined to directly meet opposition – who drove the revolt. The Zealots used terror to force all the Jews into the revolt, even though their numbers consisted of Jewish families, not professional soldiers, and were insignificant before Rome’s army. “Old men, mixed with infants, all dead, and scattered about together; women also lay amongst them” (Jospehus). Most of the Jews didn’t want to be fighting, and didn’t believe in what the Zealots were forcing them to do, so both skill and morale was lower than that of the professional Roman army. “At the time of the Judean revolt, the Roman Army consisted of 28 legions of 5500 men, and auxiliary units … all professional soldiers” (Goldberg 2012). Such a minority group like the Jews had almost no chance against the extensive Roman Empire. Despite many Jews seeing the impossibility the success of the campaign, the Zealots determinedly forced the battle into action. This goes against the principle of Probability of

Much has been argued regarding the existent of anti-Semitism and the general disdain for Jewry supposedly apparent in the plays of William Shakespeare. Time and again his work is held up as representative of that which we - with our 21st century sensibilities - have been educated to abhor and disavow. The hatred of man because of race, color or creed has, within the collective conscience been largely rejected. The fostering of a self-regulating society has engrained contemporary sensibilities through the policy of political correctness: a body politic of public consciousness that wasn’t apparent in 16th century England or anywhere else in the western world for that matter. All were liable to open ridicule via the medium of theatre, be they king or pauper, man or woman, Moore or Jew as evidenced by the writing of the period. Everybody and everything - much to the delight of the paying public and the disdain of the censor - was fair game. The subject – Jew, Moore etc. - is irrelevant, as the subjects themselves are simply the masks upon which the foil of disdain is played. Whether xenophobic, racist, misogamist or anti-Semitic - or any other form of depredation - Shakespeare’s writing, rather than guilty of one, is representative of all. Shakespeare uses the Jew as a representation rather than as an example and therefore, can be forgiven for what we today would class as anti-Semitism. The dearth of Jewry at this particular period of history in England supports this and

At the beginning of the second World War, there were 140,000 Jews residing in the Netherlands. 107,000 people, close to seventy five percent of the Jewish population were removed by the Nazi movement by the end of the war. Only 5,000 of of the captured jews returned home. The other roughly 30,000 Jews survived by other means. One of these ways was through the bravery and the risks taken by the Dutch Resistance. After the Nazis occupied many European nations, they implemented new laws and new governments. They targeted mainly minorities, such as the Jewish. Deciding to rebel against the Nazis and the few Dutch who joined the Nazi movement, ordinary civilians and higher figures joined together to protect their way of life and the Jewish people in their countries.

The anti-Jewish policy was one of Hitler’s main concerns during his time in power. The evolution of the policies against Jews leading up to the war included three major events: boycotts, the Nuremberg laws, and Kristallnacht. The war was also extremely important in the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population as it helped blanket the Holocaust and the “final solution”.

The author is speculative with regards to the true identity and role of Flavius Josephus. However, he does not fail to acknowledge the great work of Josephus, particularly in the wake of the Roman oppression. The author highlights Josephus career from his early days in Jerusalem and later, a career at Rome. Eventually, Josephus integrated himself in the Roman army and used his