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Child Rearing Practices OF Hasidic Jews, 2001.
Examines beliefs, home life, parenting goals, education, community values.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 14 sources, $ 87.95
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"The essence of Hasidism is both its orthodoxy and its passion. Although there are many sects of Hasidic Jews, they all share the fundamental idea that the soul must be on fire for the creator, not for anything else. It is the creator who is at the center of life and all of life is lived in accordance with principles, commandments, and guidelines that have been long-established as likely to lead the community closer to the time of the messiah and the beginning of heaven on earth. With this as its goal, the child-rearing practices of Hasidic families differ from the average American family in many ways. The goal is to mold an observant Hasidic Jew, with understanding of his..."
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"The Jews Of Islam" (Bernard Lewis) and "The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam" (Bat Ye'or), 1992.
Compares these two books on non-Muslim peoples living in Muslim society.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"The Dhimmi, Two Views
"Dhimmi" is a term applied to someone who lives in a Muslim society without being a Muslim (principally Jews and Christians). This paper compares and contrasts two books on the subject of the dhimmi--The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis and The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam by Bat Ye'or. This comparison and contrast centers on four points: (1) ways in which the authors express their views, (2) the subjects the authors choose to write about, (3) differences in subject matter, and (4) individual point of view.
As both works have a scholarly tone, neither one reveals particular emotions or views regarding the subject matter. Both are objective and factual, letting the ideas, facts, and interpretations speak for themselves. The formats and styles are ..."
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Jews in Contemporary Russia, 2006.
An analysis of the ongoing question of identity as it relates to Jews living in Russia and whether they see themselves first as Russians or first as Jews.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper refers to problem of 'who is a Russian?' and the special problems associated with a varied Russian Jewish community, anti-Semitism, and assumptions concerning Jewish versus Russian identity. Jews in tsarist and Soviet Russia, and in the present, are outlined to indicate similar thematic problems. High emigration has reduced the Russian Jewish community, but many remained uncounted, as some are determined to remain who view themselves as first and foremost Russian as opposed to Jewish.
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"Jews Without Money" and "Uncle Moses", 2002.
Analyzes Mike Gold's autobiographical novel, "Jews Without Money" and Sholem Asch's film, "Uncle Moses" and show how both depict Jews in New York at the turn of the century.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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Mike Gold and Sholem Asch were contemporaries but worlds apart. Gold, born on the Lower East Side in New York City, was pure American while Asch remained a European whose concerns were more with the Jewish shtetl than the tenements of Gold's world. Their paths crossed, however, in the subjects of Gold's autobiographical novel, "Jews Without Money" and of the film, "Uncle Moses", based on Asch's novel. While Gold's work is mainly anecdotal as opposed to the rather histrionic drama of the film, both examine the disparity between the old world and the new, the politics of strikes and socialism that were brewing at the time and both also celebrate the tremendous strength of the Jewish community.
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The Gifts of the Jews, 2002.
A review of Thomas Cahill's book "The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels."
813 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper examines Thomas Cahill's "The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels," a radical reinterpretation of what Jews have brought to western civilization and a retelling of Biblical stories. It discusses how the theme of the books seems to be revisioning the history of the Jews, who are usually thought of as a beleaguered wandering tribe of peoples who were the victims of unthinkable horror and unbelievable hatred. It sets out to show that we owe the Jews the shape of western civilization. It looks at how the Jews gave us freedom, a day of rest and the concept of monotheism.
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"Cahill makes many interesting points. One of them is that the reason the Bible has those long, incantatory, and often narcoleptic genealogies, is that by listing individual's names, even women's names, the Jews are saying that every individual counts. Their history and contribution counts. he Bible is remarkable for how often it tells the stories of "ordinary people." In a way, this is reminiscent of the meaning and success of Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Each name has meaning, and that meaning builds as the list of names builds. As the Jewish saying goes, "If you save one life, you save the world entire.""
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Jews in Poland after WWII, 2003.
This paper discusses the treatment of Jews in Poland after the end of WWII.
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 8 sources, $ 63.95
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This paper refers to treatment of Jews by most Poles during WWII as assisting the Germans locate and kill Jews. The author points out that, although the survival rate for Jews in Poland was only 1 percent, hostility and violence against them marked the post WWII period, including the 1946 Kiel pogrom. The paper cites official anti-Semitic campaigns against Jews in the 1960s.
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"Polish-Jewish relations still remain strained after a turbulent relationship during the ... century. During WWII, the survival rate for Jews in Poland was percent 1 percent. During WWII, Poland was partitioned by Germany and Russia. Stalin .."
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The History Of Jews In Canada: World War II War Criminals, 2002.
An analysis of the history of Jews in Canada with an emphasis on how the pursuit of war criminals directly affected them.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 14 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper will examine several issues in the hope of understanding how the pursuit of war criminals directly affected (and continues to affect), Canadians and Canadian Jews as Canadians, as well as Canadian Jews as Jews. In addressing these concerns, the historical relationship between government and Jewish groups in the period under discussion, will be referenced as well.
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Aquinas and the Jews, 2005.
This paper examines Thomas Aquinas' attitude towards Jews.
1,355 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that, while Aquinas' work may be remembered by many for its original thought, his arguments in the case of Jews lost their credibility because of frequent dualities. The author points out that, while, on the one hand, Aquinas tried to be sympathetic and tolerant; on the other hand, he created an undesirable duality when he refused to resist some stereotypical images of Jews as usurers and murderers of Christ. The paper states that, when he had the opportunity to dispel some old beliefs and add a new and refreshing angle to the age-old prejudice held against Jews, Aquinas failed miserably. Many quotations.
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"The works of Saint Augustine were one of the major sources for Aquinas' writings. His views on Jews are largely a response to Augustine's arguments. Thus, we must not deny the influence of other thinkers and philosophers on Aquinas' work but we must also admit that his work bore a distinctive mark that indicated originality and independent thinking. Aquinas was particularly interested in Pharisaic Judaism. This sect was responsible for calling Jesus a Samaritan- a term they used for someone who was seen as unclean. Samaritans were usually classed with the Philistines and Edomites as Mishna declares: "He that eats the bread of the Samaritans is like to one that eats the flesh of swine.""
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The Nazis and the Jews, 2004.
This paper discusses the historical steps by which the Nazis attempted to annihilate the Jews.
910 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper explains that Hitler believed that to achieve his dream of a pure racial state in Germany, he had to totally eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth. The author points out that the first working session of the Reichszentrale began the process of concentrating all matters concerning Jewish emigration into the hands of the police. The paper relates that in the concentration camps German doctors practiced "medical experiments", known as eugenics, on the Jews in which experiments were made regarding the purity of German blood as opposed to that of the Jews.
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"Hitler's first stage of this act toward racial purity and a racial state was aimed at accomplishing two ends-first, Germany had to purge itself of its internal enemies, and second, Germany had to make itself strong. The first step in this process was purgation, which had been achieved with the promulgation of the laws of 1933 and the Nuremberg Laws. At the end of August of 1936, Hitler went to Berchtesgaden, where he prepared his memorandum on the Four Year Plan. A portion of this document provided for the expropriation of all Jews when Germany went to war, for the Reichstag was to pass a law "making the whole of Jewry liable for all damages inflicted by individual specimens . . . upon the German economy and thus upon the German people"."
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Jews in the Soviet Union, 2000.
A discussion of the fate of the Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II.
3,710 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 102.95
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This paper focuses on the mass murder of the Jews in U.S.S.R. during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. It provides a chronological list of events in the U.S.S.R. from 1939-1945. It describes how the task of dealing with the Jews was entrusted to the shock groups (Einsatzgruppen) that accompanied the army assisted by local groups of collaborationists and how the Germans generally used one of four methods and in some cases, a combination of these methods to exterminate the Jews in the occupied localities in the Soviet Union: mass murders in ravines and quarries, rounding up and immediate extermination, concentration camps and ghettos. It concludes by telling the story of ghettoes of Vilna, Minsk, Riga.
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"A few days later an announcement was made ordering the Jews to register with the Judenrat, on pain of death. After a few more days-or weeks, at the most-the Jews were ordered to report at a certain spot in the town, from which they were going to be sent to a labor camp or "moved to Palestine." These announcements usually included a threat that any Jew who failed to report, and any person who helped Jews to hide, would be executed. The Jews were told to take along only a few items, and no food at all, since it would be provided for them by the authorities. The assembled Jews were escorted by Germans and locally recruited armed units who beat them, harassed them, and shot anyone who lagged behind or voiced any kind of protest."
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Yaffa Eliach's "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust", 2004.
This paper examines three excerpts from the "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust" by Yaffa Eliach to determine the impact of the Holocaust on the spiritual survival and modern consciousness of the Jewish people.
2,490 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This paper explains that addressing the events of the Holocaust from both an imaginative and realistic perspective allows for a better understanding of the experience from the people who were most affected: The six million Jews who were murdered, the survivors and the legacy of the Jewish heritage in the State of Israel. The author points out that the religious legacy of devotion to God and the sacrifices of the Jewish people, from a time-oriented, linear perspective, are described by Yaffa Eliach in the chapter, "Who Will Win This War?" in which she narrates the sufferings of Jewish prisoners doomed to Nazi labor battalions in Poland. The paper relates that the value of a religious education for the devout Jews at Bergen Belsen is reflected in the chapter, "What I Learned at My Father's Home," in which the author describes the sacrifices of one mother in an attempt to educate her children in Jewish law and tradition, even under these deprived circumstances.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Time Orientation of Narratives
Concepts and Treatment of Death
The Value of a Religious Education for the Devout Jews at Bergen Belsen
Primo Levi's Reaction to the Concept of Time during the Holocaust
The Survival of Primo Levi in Auschwitz
A Blessing on the Moon
Conclusion
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"When the group of Jews refused the commandant's alternative of breaking their observance of Yom Kippur by repeatedly sliding down the mountain on the stomachs, the scene was described as, "At midnight, as the rains abated, the performance was stopped. The men were given food and drink. They lit small campfires, trying to dry their clothes and warm their shivering bodies. Their faces shone with a strange glow as they sat around the small campfires at the foot of Bornemissza. It seemed as if the campfires reflected the glow of their shining faces and burning eyes" (p. 105). This observance of an ancient religious ceremony in the face of such brutality prompted one young Nazi officer to tell the group of exhausted Jews: "I don't know who will win this war, but one thing I am sure of -- people like you, a nation like yours, will never be defeated, never!" '
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"The War Against the Jews 1933-1945", 2006.
A review of Lucy S. Davidowicz's book "The War Against the Jews 1933-1945".
994 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines how Jewish historian Lucy S. Davidowicz wrote "The War Against the Jews 1933-1945" to explain the annihilation of six million Jews during the Second World War by the German state under Adolf Hitler. It looks at how she sets out to prove the Second World War was in fact caused by the desire of Hitler and the German state he built, to exterminate the European Jews.
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"Considering the term "Jewish question" Davidowicz cites the "solution" offered by Constantine Pobyedonostsev, chief adviser to Czar Alexander III, in 1881: one-third of the Jews were to emigrate, one-third to convert, and one-third to die of hunger. She observes the National Socialists adopted this concept. She then considers what was a new element adopted by the National Socialists, embodied in the word "final." The main thrust of her argument is the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" in the National Socialist conception was not just another anti-Semitic undertaking, but a "metahistorical" program of judgment and death."
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The Holy Spirit and the Jews, 2002.
A look at the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Jews in the Books of "Luke" and "Acts".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper addresses the treatment of both the Holy Spirit, which laid the initial foundations of Christianity, and its connection with the role of the Jews in the Books of Luke and Acts. This paper proves that the Holy Spirit helped to provide the foundation for Christianity and also helped the Jews make the transition into Christianity.
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The Enlightenment and the Jews, 2002.
A look at how the Enlightenment allowed to Jews to become upwardly mobile in society.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the Enlightenment and how it allowed Jews' position in society to improve, but the underlying prejudice not only remained, it increased. The Enlightenment reconstructed religion into a private matter which allowed the Jews to assimilate into society. This gave freedom and opportunity on the one hand, and a renewed vilification on the other.
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Jews and The United States, 2002.
Examines the threat faced by immigrant Jews to America of losing their Jewish identity.
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This paper examines the social change that confronted Jewish immigrants to the United States. Two primary sources are investigated: These sources are Mary Antin's "The Promised Land" and Jonathan Sarna's "People Walk on Their Heads: Moses Weinberger's "Jews and Judaism in New York". The subject of the discussion surrounds the Americanization of immigrant Jews and the dangers that immigration poised to the faith.
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