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    Two Jewish People named, Pavel Friedmann and Krystyna Chiger, who both wanted freedom spent their time during World War 2 in 1942 to endure, and continue to live their life without kicking the bucket too soon. Pavel Friedmann stayed locked up in the ghetto for seven weeks while Krystyna and her family lived down in the rat infested sewers for 14 months. The reason for their concealment was because they were Jewish, and during World War 2, all the Nazi’s wanted to do was exterminate the Jewish people

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    Tradition Is The New Year

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    between the divine ruler and the Jewish people. As we discussed in class, in many of the scriptural readings it is blatant that god is the supreme ruler over the people. That there is only one god and we pray to that god. Throughout the prayers we ask for forgiveness to that one god. We recognize that god is our leader who ultimately created us and that decides whether we are inscribed into “the book of life.” The torah is the most holy writing that the Jewish people have. It was treated with the

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    Throughout the essay, Wagner makes it his goal to define what it is about the “Jewish nature” that is inherently repulsive. This quote informs his readers that they should fight the guilt of their consciouses with their “natural” disgust of the Jewish people. These two objects were tied closely together because as Wagner starts to box in what the Jewish race is, he does not want his audience to feel any sympathy for them; Wagner stages the Jews as a lost cause. First

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    progressively reduced the Jewish people to being little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place, as the Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Germans dehumanized Eliezer, his father, and other fellow Jews for the duration of the memoir Night, which had a lasting effect on Eliezer’s identity, attitude and outlook. Wiesel displays the Nazi’s vicious actions to accentuate the way by which they dehumanize the Jewish population. The Nazis

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    to deliver the virus. By the 16th century, around 80% of the world’s Jewish population had resided in Polish territory. The Jewish people had an unprecedented amount of freedom. With their own operating legislative councils, they had also been given the freedom to openly worship, create Jewish learning centers, and wear traditional garb, that was otherwise banned in other regions of the world. Though in 1648, steadfast Jewish life came to a halt. Rioters and protesters with blood libel began sweeping

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    How did the Black Death change the lives of the people who survived, not only from the amount of fatalities, but also by the disruption of religion and the economy? I believe the effect on Europe during this time were beyond devastating due to the loss of about twenty-five million people. The Black death started in Europe in October 1347. It arrived there by sea when twelve Genoese trading ships came and docked in the Sicilian port of Messina. When people went to greet the sailors on the ships, they

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    Emma Lazarus, a nineteenth century Jewish American poet, was born on July 22, 1849 in New York City. Her parents, Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus, had seven children. She was the fourth of the seven to born, with five sisters and one brother. Emma was born into one of the oldest and most prestigious Hebrew families in New York. The Nathan Lazarus family was descended from the early Jewish settlers in America. By the time Emma was born, they had been established in Manhattan for four generations

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    festivities. More importantly, these holidays depict how and why people of Jewish value these celebrations. First, the Sabbath which is a day of resting, it is an essential factor to relinquish your inner spirit or soul. Sabbath is the most recognized Jewish holiday but people lack the understanding of the holiday, thinking it is just a day for prayer and

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    holocaust lasted for 12 years, this was a mass genocide when the Germans didn’t think the Jewish deserved to live so in 1933 they started to torture them, make them do things for the Germans such as house chores but if something went wrong with what they did they were in trouble, they were either killed on the spot or tortured till they died. The Holocaust is a time when the Germans thought that the Jewish weren’t people at all and they didn’t deserve to be treated well so the Germans put them in

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    The Seamstress dramatically changed how I viewed the Holocaust because it not only showed me how intolerable the conditions were, but also how poorly the Jews were treated. Before reading The Seamstress I did not fully grasp the concept of the Holocaust or the fact that the Jews were scared for their lives. My knowledge of the tragic event was very vague, and I didn’t understand it was so horrific. Not only were the survivors extremely brave, but they also suffered unbearable scenarios which I, myself

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