One person who truly influenced my Jewish development was my cousin Michael Zauder A”H. In the year 1982‚ a true angel was born. Michael was born with a disease called Familial Dysautonomia. Familial Dysautonomia is a disorder that affects the autonomic nervous system. Some of the symptoms my cousin went through and other people who struggle with this disease was: trouble feeling pain‚ temperature‚ skin pressure and the position of his arms and legs. This is just the beginning of the troubles my
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members (Gibson 6). Jewish families were also affected (Ofer 10). While in ghettos‚ their clothes‚ faith‚ possessions‚ and ability to think for themselves were taken away from them (Ofer 11). Despite this‚ even while in the ghettos and concentration camps‚ the Jews tried to keep their faith and religion in tact as much as they could (Ofer 11). Jewish men fled the country in the outbreak of the war since “they were in greater danger than the women and children” (Ofer 12). Other Jewish men “refrained from
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The Four Source Theory is the idea that the Torah‚ the Jewish Bible‚ originated from four separate sources. Each one was written and developed over a different period of time. Each part teaches its reader something that the other three cannot. The four sources were combined to be a single document containing all their different ideas. The earliest source is the Yahwist source (J). Written between 1000 and 950 B.C. in Jerusalem under King Solomon‚ the Yahwist source discusses stories and traditions
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Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg Who is a Jew? Most Mischlinge didn’t even consider themselves Jewish‚ but rather‚ faithful German citizens “felt shocked that their ancestry suddenly disqualified them from serving (82)” “For Mischlinge‚ the concept of being half-German was just as foreign as ‘being half-Jewish or trying to explain to someone why you’re half-circumcised’ (28)” “[T]ens of thousands of German-Jews were not Jews at all in their own eyes (18)” “felt German and believed
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The Documentary Hypothesis was created by Julius Wellhausen in 1878‚ and it was used to explain the different groups of people‚ and ways the Torah was written and edited. There are four different groups within this theory that consist of the J‚ E‚ D‚ and P’s (Coogan‚ 43). At first it started out with the problem of timing for the different names of God that the J’s and E’s focused on. The J’s were the Yahwist; claiming to the idea that the name Yahweh starts from the begging‚ in Genesis. The E’s
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the most impactful Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. He lived in a time period called the ‘’Golden Age of the Jews’’ in Spain where he was considered to be one of the greatest human beings ever produced from the time of the central text of Judaism (Talmud) to modern day. His level on influence on the Jews is often compared to that of Moses himself. Whilst Maimonides lived his life he allowed Spanish Jewry to reach its highest peak thanks to his amazing contributions in Jewish law and philosophic
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Joseph D’Amato November 14‚ 2014 Dr. Klose Nostra Aetate 50 Years Later Catholic and Jewish ties from the last 50 years represents a success from the work of Nostra Aetate because before the Nostra Aetate there was a bitter and battered 2000 year relationship between the two groups of people. The document has transformed the relationship between Roman Catholics and Jews. In the early Church many of the teachings taught Catholics that Jews had caused Jesus to be held for trial and be condemened
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Adolf Hitler was a very scary man! Jewish parents in Germany and people in other countries worked together to save Jewish children from him and the Holocaust by sending them away to different countries. They did this because after Adolph Hitler became Germany’s leader‚ he expressed himself about Jews in many ways. He did not like them at all and he was very threatening to them. Jewish families were concerned about their children because of how threatening he was to all Jews; even children! In the
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Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was born October 17‚ 1915 to Jewish-American parents‚ Isidore and Augusta Miller. Due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929‚ Miller’s father lost his clothes and coat manufacturing company. Arthur Miller graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1933. His family had no money to send him to college because of the effect of the Great Depression. Miller went on in life having many ups and downs but still prevailed and that is what made him the great play writer he is today
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Jewish Children’s Struggle Although life was bad for Jewish adults during WWII‚ it was harder for children to survive. They were forced into hard labor‚ put into hiding‚ and were the victims of of horrendous experiments. The Germans killed almost 1.5 million children in total‚ including a million Jews‚ thousands of Romani kids‚ and mentally and physically disabled children. Children were killed when arriving in camps‚ killed immediatly after birth‚ were hidden in camps‚ put to work in hard labor
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