Ashkenazi Jews

condescension between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews has gradually transformed into a more leveled socioeconomic platform between the two ethnic groups. The Jews of Ashkenazi descent, mainly from Eastern European countries and Britain, arrived in the decades before the creation of the State of Israel and were able to rapidly create a new society. Shortly after Israel’s independence, massive waves of Jewish immigrants flooded the country, of which a large part were Mizrahim Jews from North Africa and

the belief of Jews the life preservation among the Jews is significant. In Jewish law, an individual must take the responsibility to promote self-wellness. The members of Judaism are taught to choose life for it is unacceptable to refuse medical treatment and measures that would enhance and promote life. It is important as a health care provider to acknowledge Sarah’s decision to the use of the advance measures and treatment regarding her medical condition. For the belief of the Jews the health care

different races and nationalities: the Jews were represented as mice, the Polish as pigs and the Germans as cats. According to the World War II history, we are not surprised that why Spiegelman drew Jews as mice, and Germans as cats. As we all know, cats always trap mice. They are more strong, aggressive and fierce. However, mice are helpless, and always hide away from cats, in order to escape from killing. In World War II, a total of approximately 6,000,000 European Jews were murdered under the direction

century BC. It is a branch of the Semitic language northwest dialect of Canaan (Zuckermann, 2012). In 70 BC, the Romans invaded Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people, the holy land of Christianity (including Catholicism), Judaism, and Islam. The Jews were expelled from their homes and scattered all over the world. As a result, they were forced to use the language of their host countries instead of their own

and political ideologies, he felt a need to eliminate the Jewish community, because of inherent belief that Jews caused the fall of the German economy during the Great Depression. However, the policies of extermination that Hitler expanded in World War II concentration camps, specifically during 1942-1944, exemplify a stronger Jewish hatred than merely economics. Hitler believed that Jews were “culture destroyers”, and needed to be eliminated before they destroyed the German nation. Hitler’s ideologies

In the films The Vow, directed by Henryk Szaro, and The Dybbuk, written by S. Ansky, the creators of both works describe a classic story of a promise between two fathers to wed their unborn children together. The Vow and The Dybbuk begin with this promise, but unfortunately in each film one of the fathers dies before the promise is fulfilled. Ultimately, the children find each other but are posed with troubling complications that prevent them from being together and having the promise fulfilled.

Jewish artist, his background is the vehicle through which he sees the world and becomes the language of his universally valid art. Chagall once remarked in the Yiddish literary journal Shtrom in 1922 as “Leaves from My Notebook”: “If I were not a Jew… I would not have been an artist, or I would be a different artist altogether.” [1] The interwove of Chagall’s Jewish background and his multi-cultural life experience has contributed a lot to his artistic inspiration

Referred to as the “Cinderella of the Tenements,” Anzia Yezierska (est.1880-1970) is best known for writing about Jewish immigrants, specifically women, and the challenges they faced assimilating to life in the United States. An immigrant herself, Yezierska and her family moved to the United States to escape Eastern Europe’s poverty, and rising antisemitic attitudes. She ultimately chose a career in writing, and published several short stories and novels (Kent 144). Yezierska’s most popular novel

of ethnic neighborhoods. After the opening of the first rail connection from New York to Chicago in the 1840s, immigration sky rocketed from that point on. Majority of the immigrants to Chicago were Europeans. The Irish, Italians, eastern European Jews, Germans, and Mexicans were among the most common ethnicities to reside in Chicago. These groups made up the greater part of Chicago. The sudden increase in immigration to Chicago in the 1920s soon led to an even further distinguished separation of

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. In 1881, assassins killed the Russian monarch Czar Alexander II. Nervous government