Introduction Surely one of the greatest ironies of human condition is that color and culture, source of our greatest pride, are also traits that so often foment hatred and propel us into war. There are different causes for discrimination upon different races and biological-ethnical differences. I...

The motto on the Great Seal of the United States is \"novus ordo seclorum\"--a new order of the ages. The revolutionary nature of America was particularly true for Jews. For thousands of years they had lived in states in Europe and the Arab countries in which anti-Semitism was actively promoted or t...

Gluckel of Hameln was a seventeenth century Jewish woman from Hamburg who wrote a lengthy memoir in Yiddish. While she was not a famous person in her time, Gluckel's memoir has been regarded as one of the most important documents for European Jewish history, of the late seventeenth and early eighte...

Melson Summary Chapter Three - Like the Armenians, Jews had to overcome social, economic, political, cultural spheres - they did not suffer a massacre but anti-Semitic reaction to undo their emancipation and social mobilization - anti-Semitism took form in a political party and failed befor...

### WAGNER'S THOUGHTS ON CHRISTIANITY AND ANTI-SEMITISM Prof. Colette Simonot Music 365.3 Amy Kebernik Friday, April 6, 2001 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES 4-5 III. WAGNER AND ANTI-SEMITISM 5-6 IV. WAGNER AND CHR...

Admitting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer is a collection of essays about the Holocaust and how it is perceived in literature by our culture. Langer explores oral testimonies, diaries and fiction that consider the devastation of the Holocaust a central theme. He takes a look a...

During the period from the early 1930\'s to the mid 40\'s, the Jews in Germany, Poland, and throughout Europe faced intense discrimination from the Nazis. Starting with boycotts and pogroms, the Nazis proceeded to institute legislation against the Jews with the Nuremberg Laws. Institution of ghettos...

Over history various methods have been used to justify discrimination. Although religion and race were both successful in instituting social hierarchies, the implications of their characterizations were quite different. Though similar in their origins, the transition from religion to race as the bas...

"Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations" said Walt Whitman (Lee). The United States of America, now the most powerful nation in the world, was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, colonized by 1700, freed from British rule in 1776, split in civil war in 1860, ...

Herzel believed that anti-Semitism was an \"incurable gentile pathology.\" Zionism was developed as an ideology determined to lead its people out of \"perpetual enemy territory.\" The Jews, he posited, should have a nation-state of their own. \"Herzel himself would have been ready to contemplate any...

One of the most devastating and frightening time-periods of our history was during the Second World War, when between five and six million Jewish civilians were killed throughout Europe in a mass genocide. A large portion of the Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler's regime. However, thousand...

It can be agreed on that the ghettos established as part of the Nazi regime to put an answer to the Jewish question all have something in common. They were all populated by European Jews; they were all established to segregate the Jewish race from the rest of the population; smuggling was rampant i...

There is an old saying that a picture says a thousand words. Art Spiegelman's series Maus: A Survivors Tale proves this saying to a tee. Added to the dialogue, a million possibilities arise. The series is a biographical comic book about his father's experiences during the Holocaust. ...

Throughout history, there have been wars and conflicts fought in the name of righteousness and good. In many cases, the hostilities were deemed "holy wars," being, supposedly, fought in the name of Christ, Allah, Yahweh, or whatever deity the people worshipped. While blood was being shed "in the n...

The word holocaust is a word that we have heard at one time or another. It means different things to different people. It is a word that brings up negative thoughts. Words like prejudice, death, genocide, and world domination are associated with the Holocaust. The Holocaust is accepted event in w...

There are many people that say it never happened but there is no room for denial in a topic like this. The holocaust did happen and it was a terrible thing. There are so many wrong things that happened during the holocaust. One of the worst things I believe that happened were the murders and kill...

Israelis and Palestinians: The Middle-East Horror The Israelis and the Palestinians, both in the past and in the present, have caused one another great suffering because their religious beliefs have impelled them to violence over the issue of control of the city of Jerusalem. Both sides belie...

From the beginning the Nazis who were being faithful to Hitler had specifically targeted the Jews. The Nazis relentless hatred for the Jews rested on the view they had of the world, which saw history as of a racial struggle. They thought the Jews goal was world domination. This made the Nazis thi...

From the beginning the Nazis who were being faithful to Hitler had specifically targeted the Jews. The Nazis relentless hatred for the Jews rested on the view they had of the world, which saw history as of racial struggle. They thought the Jews goal was world domination. This made the Nazis think...

Adolf Hitler: The Final Solution During the summer of 1941, Chancellor Adolf Hitler initialized "The Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question". Hitler started this program because he wanted to create a highly centralized state and one for the master race, Germans. Exterminating J...

the Islamic Congress's president, Mohamed Elmasry. Mr. Elmasry said there are bad Muslims just as there are bad Christians and Jews. "We treat them as such and so should you. But Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims have a religious duty to be tolerant of other faiths and other ideologies.'...

MAUS II There is an old saying that a picture says a thousand words. Art Spiegelman's series Maus II: A Survivors Tale/And Here My Troubles Began proves this saying to a tee. Added to the dialogue, a million possibilities arise. The series is a autobiographical/biographical comic book about h...

THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP IN WORLD WAR II "In the event of war, the result will not be the bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory for Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." –Adolf Hitler "We shall never be rough and hea...

Did the Western World do enough for the Jews in thDescription of this essay : Western Civilization - World War II Did the Western World do enough for the Jews in the Holocaust "When they came for the gypsies, I did not speak, for I am not a gypsy. When they came for the JewWestern Civilization - Wor...

For the past week I have been researching three men, Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Adolf Hitler for an answer to a question; who is the most evil? Which, means that I had to think about what exactly was evil for me. Now the dictionary they have a simple definition for it, which is: morally reprehensible...