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    Comparison, Contrast and Attitude of American Jews in the WW2 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

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    Were the African Americans and Jews really that different, what do you think? Blacks and Jews were different but also very similar in the way they were treated. Blacks and Jews were very impactful but you may not realize it. Blacks and Jews were always treated poorly but it all went downhill from there when slavery started and the oppression started, nothing ended right as the war ended or hitler died, people still looked at them rudely and judged them. The history of African Americans is amazing compared

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    Between Jews and African-Americans Have you ever faced the wrath of discrimination? The Jews and African-Americans were two races that experienced discrimination and inequalities. Hitler was the main reason for the Jews suffrage. He killed ⅔ of their population, because of his radical views. A group of Europeans had a giant impact on the lives of African-Americans. They would abduct them from Africa, and send them across the ocean to America, to become slaves. The Jews and the African-Americans both

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    written by a Jewish poet Emma Lazarus, a decedent of the first Jews to arrive in North American colonies in the 1650s. For centuries Jewish people have lived in many places far from there ancestral home in the Middle East, always searching for a home. Like many religious minorities Jews saw America as a special place where they could be a part of creating something new and embraced the opportunity. Today there are around 6 million Jews living in the United States but three centuries ago in colonial

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    found progress up the economic ladder painfully slow. Their work as obmestic servants or construction laborers was dull and arduous, and mortality rates were astoundingly high. Escape from the potato famine hardly guaranteed a long life to and Irish-American most of the new arrivals toiled as day laborers. A fortunate few owned boarding houses or saloons, where their dispirited countrymen sought solace in the bottle. For Irish-born women, opportunities were still scarcer; they worked mainly as domestic

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    One of the most frightening things is to realize the government is not on the same side as you. Unfortunately, that is what happened with the African-Americans during the reconstruction of the south and the Jews in Hitler’s Germany. Those who are supposed to help all of the nation and be fair and just were not and turned against them. It was hard. The people suffered in many ways. There were unjust politics, terror groups, rights were taken, and fallacies spread against them. What is worse is that

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    practices, and ideas were juxtaposed with the “New World,” American values. Thus, Hester Street highly endorses the characters’ acceptance with assimilating to American values. Furthermore, the film also showcases the resistance and complications to assimilation as some characters try to maintain their culture. As Jewish immigrants settled in New York, some adopted American values. As a result, they assimilated into the mainstream of American culture. This is

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    America boasts an unsurpassed justice system. Unlike many Eastern countries, America presumes the defendant “innocent until proven guilty”. The Fourth Amendment protects all individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures, and a valid search warrant must be obtained from a magistrate after proving probable cause. Additionally, in America criminals can be vindicated if the prosecution fails to prove their criminal guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment provides

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    nearing its end, education and acceptance in American society was more prevalent on the public’s radar. With those of the first generation still holding to their Jewish identity, many of their children were less motivated and less caring for their Jewish roots. This lack of awareness tainted Jewry of the fifties and climactically corroborated this Jewish emergence and assimilation to surpass throughout the sixties. The beginning of the 1960’s for American Jewry showed no difference in motivation than

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    the Depression and the 1940s. Almost all of the Jewish American writers simply presented realistic portrayals of their fellow immigrants or their parents’ generation. Later, some other Americans, partial to Anti-Semitism, found confirmation of negative stereotypes in the new Jewish American Literature. Indeed, some parent-hating or self-hating Jewish American writers of the second or the third generation, living now in the bounty of American affluence, consciously reinforced negative stereotypes

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