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    Dehumanization of the Jews Dehumanization is the process of making a person less human by taking away the important things in their life and what makes them who they are; not only the material things but their ideas and morals as well. The Nazi’s dehumanized millions and millions of Jews during the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s recollection of his experience in the German’s concentration camps‚ he explained how brutal the Nazi’s could be‚ how they could take a person’s life away in the matter of

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    Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is based on his experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. Having grown up an Orthodox Jew in the Hungarian village of Sighet‚ Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and youngest sister were immediately sent to the gas chambers. While both his older sisters survived‚ his father‚ with whom Wiesel had fought to survive the labor camps‚ died shortly before the war ended. Night tells

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    asked the question‚ why did Hitler hate Jews? Being really curious I researched this question and while being in the process of researching I had other questions circulate through my mind such as what was the result of Hitler’s hatred‚ how it affected Germany‚ economic impact and what the Jews had went through. People had the idea of antisemitism ingrained in their head since they were little children‚ the outcome of this left some ideas in their head such as Jews want to defile or destroy the Christian

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    Why is Passover an Important Festival For Jews? Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is an important festival for Jews because it reminds them of the Jews suffering‚ not only in Ancient Egypt but also throughout history‚ such events are the Crusade and the Holocaust during both of which many Jews suffered. It is also a way of remembering that the Jews suffered then but ahead is a peaceful time. Passover reminds Jews of the story of Exodus and the ten plagues which then led on to their freedom. The tenth

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    directed towards the Jews‚ my guess is most of you would say Adolf Hitler. But this quote actually comes from a man who inspired most of the German hate towards the Jews‚ a man who was and still is regarded as one of the great reformists of the church. A man named Martin Luther. Martin Luther’s hate towards the Jews is present‚ not only in Nazi propaganda‚ but in Nazi actions. Luther‚ a German hero‚ has a handful of quotes about burning down synagogues and forcing the Jews to move away. 400 years

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    How accurate is it to say that persecution was most intense in areas where influential people were able to promote action against witches? (30) In the years 1580 to 1650 the witch hunts of Europe took place against a backdrop of rapid social‚ economic‚ and religious transformation. Witch hunting was the hostility‚ accusations and campaigns aimed at a person or a group in the community holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society and the intensity of these hunts varied in different

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    Black Jews of South Africa: biological and cultural constructions of identity November 19‚ 2002 Text: 11 pages Figures: 2 pages Bibliography: 3 pages Introduction Walking through the Venda Plaza shopping center in Thohoyandou‚ South Africa‚ R dai ae ta a ad a tm ‚T aioe f Jws bo e . Gv g i a uznw vdo m n n si o e“ hts n o my e i rt r” i n h d h hs i m pzl ytn i e l kh ep i d“a a l k e . cm f m I al l gi e uz d ei r ud o ‚e xln ‚Im Ba Jw We a er s eao t e tg o ae c o r n m aoT e hv poe iwt

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    The purpose of the War Convention is to establish the duties of the persons engaged in the act of aggression. Michael Walzer defined the War Convention as the articulated norms‚ customs‚ professional codes‚ precepts‚ religious‚ philosophical principles and reciprocal arrangements that shape our judgement of military conduct. Thus‚ the War Convention may be interpreted as the multitude of non-binding moral criteria by which the justice of actions within the prosecution of conflict may be judged. The

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    Passage 57 of Jacob Rader Marcus’s work‚ The Jew in the Medieval World‚ provides great insight into the role of Jews under Muslim rule during the 10th century. The primary individual of the document is Saadia‚ who became the Gaon at the academy of Sura during the period of the Abbasid caliphate. During this dynasty‚ the “Jews had a political head in the exilarch and great religious leaders in the Geonim” (Marcus 323). Through the story of Saadia‚ it is apparent that while both the gaon and the exilarch

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    Changes in the life of Jews in Nazi Germany in the years 1933-1945 The Nazis anathematize the Jews. From a long time ago the Jews were not liked by the people of Europe and in the reign of the Nazis this became much worse. The Nazis officials were given strict orders to exterminate as many Jews as possible. The Nazis wanted to remove the whole of Jewish community. They wanted to eradicate every single Jew in the whole world. The Jews had to face a really hard time during the period of 1933 to

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