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Jewish Community and the Impact of the Holocaust

the sometimes intense and often expansive sense of being that is clearly portrayed within his works. Night is no exception. As t...

Nazi 'Final Solution'

from the annals of Nazism, very little written evidence of its existence - or why it was even initiated - is available. Scholars c...

Divorce and Judaism

of sorts so that a divorce could not be granted simply and carelessly. "If there was a certificate, there should also be grounds f...

Jewish Uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943

when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

to the bed and lay on it with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving sl...

Neusner's Introduction to Judaism

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

Jewish Community and Health Issues

their religious convictions. While that is an extreme illustration, behavior as expressed by particular groups does impact their o...

An Evaluation of The Chosen

Potok's well known novel is discussed. This work evaluates a Jewish community and the lives of teens are discussed in the context ...

Jewish Youth Strategies of Survival

In twelve pages this paper discusses the historical survival struggles encountered by Jewish youth. Eight sources are cited in th...

Israeli Peace and Public Choice

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the Jewish people's desire for peace and the conflicted process the Likud regime presently f...

Contemporary History, the Jews, and Zionism

Brandeis, and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The conference is scheduled to reconvene in Jerusalem May 18-21, 19...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Jewish Identity in 'My First Goose by Isaac Babel

In thirteen pages this paper discusses how the story protagonist Liutov's Jewish identity caused problems for him as he attempted ...

Elia Kazan's 1947 Film Gentleman's Agreement and the Concept of Jewish 'Otherness'

In five pages this film is examined in terms of how it portrays the theme of Jewish 'otherness' in regards to the treatment of Jew...

Blazing Saddles Film, Racism, and Jewish Representation

In five pages this paper discusses the 1974 film by Mel Brooks in terms of Jewish exclusion and racism. Eight sources are cited i...

Jewish Experience in the United States

In six pages this paper examines the early 20th century experience of a Jewish immigrant settling in New York with labor movements...

Ethics and Reform Jewish Movement

In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. immigration and ethics issues as they relate to the Reform Jewish Movement. Ten sources ar...

Theological Views of Euthanasia

In five pages euthanasia is discussed from the religious context that it represents murder and while it emphasizes Catholic or Chr...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...

Jews in Hollywood and An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler

In five pages this paper examines how the Hollywood studio system was created by Jewish business moguls as considered in this 1988...

Celebrations and Holidays in Judaism

In nine pages various Jewish holidays and celebrations are examined in terms of meaning and symbolic significance such as Shabbat,...

Cultural Nationalism and Diversity

In eight pages intermarriages and issues of cultural diversity and nationalism are considered from a U.S. perspective through Jewi...

Early Palestine and Jews

In eight pages this paper discusses the early Palestine in a consideration of a Jewish boy's story before the fifteenth century A....

2 Case Studies on Prevention Through Genetic Screening

In seventy pages this paper discusses World Health Organization and other genetic screening programs with a case study focus upon ...

Jewish Culture and Guilt in The Ghost Writer and Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

life, my only life, and Im living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke -- only it aint no joke!" (35...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

Dialogue Between Christians and Jews

In six pages the Old and New Testaments are considered in a discussion of similarities and differences that might emerge from a Je...

Dorothy Day and Elie Wiesel on Compassion and Spirituality

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the spirituality and compassion views of Jewish survivor of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel...