The Promised Land Summary

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

Religious influences derived from T.M Rudavsky’s “Gender and Judaism” will differ in effect on the individuals as to either reject or integrate their Jewish identities with American liberties. The articles focusing on diverse theories of assimilation being a natural element in the immigration process such as Milton Gordon’s “Assimilation in America: Theory and Reality” which will contribute the concepts “Anglo-conformity” and “cultural pluralism” as they assist Yezierska’s and Antin’s directive of assimilation in America. “Spatial Patterns of Immigrant Assimilation” written by James P. Allen and Eugene Turner will propose the significance of “cultural assimilation” constructing Sara’s and Mary’s identity through a culture that expresses a wealthy lifestyle with archiving an education in terms of success. These theories support the literary strategies of fiction and realism as their differences in external influences and personal decisions highlight the similar outcome of an incomplete assimilation integrating Jewish

In Search of the Promised Land Coauthors John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger attempt to depict what slave life was like in their book In Search of the Promised Land. In this book, Franklin and Schweninger recall a slave family’s life based on research done to uncover the life of the Thomas-Rapier family. Sally Thomas, the mother, recalls her family’s adventures of traveling around the United States in search of a promised land that African Americans could be free from poverty and injustice. This book casts a quite different light on the view of slavery. While there is still the fear of being sold and separated from each other.

Fleeing Persecution Mary Antin's first world had been a Jewish village in Russia. For centuries, Russians had discriminated against Jews, who dressed, worshiped, and ate differently from their Christian neighbors. By the 1800s, Russia had hundreds of anti-Jewish laws. Jews could live only in certain areas. They couldn't live in big cities or own land.

Regardless of the growing frequency of Jewish migrating to the United States, the community continues to confront the many issues as part of their assimilation. Through this process of assimilating,

Since the beginning of the Judaism, the Jewish people have been subject to hardships and discrimination. They have not been allowed to have a stabile place of worship and have also faced persecution and atrocities that most of us can not even imagine. Three events that have had a big impact on the Jewish faith were the building and destruction of the First Great Temple, the Second Great Temple and the events of the Holocaust. In this paper, I will discuss these three events and also explain and give examples as to why I feel that the Jewish people have always been discriminated against and not allowed the freedom of worship.

Antisemitism, the hatred for the Jewish people, has been called the longest hatred in history. This history is deep rooted and has existed for thousands of years, taking different forms throughout its existence, and intensifying up until and through the Holocaust, to then diminish to an extent but still be prevalent in most societies. Antisemitism exists in different forms, religious, ethnic, and political. The presence of Christianity as the predominant religion in Europe can be noted as a driving factor in religious and ethnic antisemitism, as can the Holocaust. Whereas instances such as the Islamic view on Judaism can be

Through the course of history, the Jewish people have been mistreated, condemned, robbed, even put to death because of their religion. In the Middle Ages, they were forced to wear symbols on their clothing, identifying them as Jews. The dates 1933 to 1945 marked the period of the deadly Holocaust in which many atrocities were committed against the Jewish people and minority groups not of Aryan descent. Six million innocent Jews were exterminated because of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” This paper will exhibit how Adolf Hitler used the three anti-Jewish policies written in history, conversion, expulsion, and annihilation to his advantage.

    For thousands of years people have left their home country in search of a land of milk and honey. Immigrants today still equate the country they are immigrating to with the Promised Land or the land of milk and honey. While many times this Promised Land dream comes true, other times the reality is much different than the dream. Immigration is not always a perfect journey. There are many reasons why families immigrate and there are perception differences about immigration and the New World that create difficulties and often separate generations in the immigrating family. Anzia Yezierska creates an immigration story based on a Jewish family that is less than ideal. Yezierska’s text is a

The main reason that Jewish people left Europe was “the lack of economic opportunity,” (“Washington State History”). From the beginning, Jewish settlers “fully participated in the social and economic life of the region,” (“Washington State History”). Many of the immigrants came to Washington for relatives, friends and it increased the growth of the Jewish community in Washington State. In early 20th century, “many of these immigrants practiced crafts bought from their homeland” and it created more opportunities for their own businesses to grow in Washington (“Washington State History”). The last major immigration of “Eastern Europeans Jews took place during the first World War, when thousands made their way to Seattle,” (“Washington State History”). “Jews in Washington have continued to seek out ways to establish both economic, social networks” and politics in Washington (“Washington State History”). From early 20th century to 1945s, Jewish people have dominated for organizing events in towns, and cities to keep people connected and socialize easier. The Jewish immigrants left a mark in the history of Washington. They helped made politics more organized, created more available economic jobs in Washington and became more social with friends and family that searched to be

Jews Without Money is based on its author’s own childhood, Michael Gold. It re-creates the Jewish immigrant Lower East Side in Manhattan in which he lived, and it provides insight into the life of first- and second-generation Jewish Americans around the turn of the twentieth century. Gold does a wonderful job at putting the reader right in the middle of the sights, smells and sounds of people who may be materially poor, but very rich emotionally. The book paints for the most part a bleak picture of Jewish immigrant life in America, a picture that will remain bleak, the book’s ending implies, until the workers’ revolution occurs. In this paper I will discuss few issues that come up in the book and in the documents that

The long-term impact on the life of European Jews after the war is in four major areas: state ownership, economics, migration and relations with other non-Jews . Geographically, prior to the war, they are with one state in one area, and after the war, they find themselves in a completely different political–cultural unit or state. Jews who formerly live in Russia, Austria, or Germany are no longer part of their normal geographical habitat can in another state . With these instabilities, their social mobility increases, and many Jews, move up into the bourgeois middle class. With the revision in character, in self-pride of culture, many develop a more secular Jewish identity, joining only Jewish organizations and socializing with only other Jews . These new demographics empty the policy of encouraging Jews to assume only agriculture roles and allow them to kept their World War I productive areas of labor, butchery, bakery, textile crafts, doctors, lawyers, and bankers. With this rapid upturn in crafts and education to make a living, it seems the new purpose for the Jews, are one of promise for them, and life is rewarding. Yet, in Europe’s degenerate Christian population, while many are still living in poverty they become unnatural, demon like evil spirits looking in any way to claw their way out of an

Throughout the history of the world, the Jewish people have been persecuted and oppressed because of their religious beliefs and faith. Many groups of people have made Jews their scapegoat. Jews have suffered from years of intolerance because people have not understood what the religion really means. They do not understand where and why the religion began, nor the customs of it's people. For one to understand the great hardships, triumphs, and history of the Jewish people one must open-mindedly peruse a greater knowledge of the Jewish people and faith.

Life for the Russian Jewry from the period of 1880 to 1920 was not a life desired by anyone. The Jews were forced to live in harsh conditions, lost their ability to have certain jobs, and faced extreme violence from their neighbors, the Russian peasantry. Escaping to America was the only way they could ever live normal and safe lives. Jews were forced to live in the area known as “The Pale of Settlement.” The Pale of Settlement was overcrowded and created poverty among the Jews. These sources show how the immigrants changed the way ethnic groups were, made the societies become equal and diverse, and influenced many cultures

Throughout the history of Judaism, Jewish people have faced ongoing persecution and discrimination. Despite these conflicts, the faith remains alive, strong, and continuously growing. Like many religions faced with adversity, Judaism has had to assimilate its faith to survive in an ever-changing world. One significant moment of change in the Jewish history, the fall of the Second Temple, had the opportunity to destroy Judaism, but the Jewish people bonded together and reformulated their religion in order to save their faith. The falling of the Second Temple marks a distinct change in the Jewish faith through the modification of ritual practices to accommodate their new mobile lifestyle. This change would forever impact the Jewish