Jewish History

Not all the Jews are laying down letting the Nazis just kill them or humiliate them. There were attempts to stop the Nazis or just to plain escape from their cruelty. It was very hard to fight the Nazis and their followers but there are a few who had resistance groups. One of the biggest […]

I liked how you showed a documentary about Judaism as a whole because not everyone in the class knows about Judaism or isn’t Jewish. With this documentary it gives a good general background and history of Jews and Judaism. The first thing he says resonates with me because most people think that it’s just a

When you showed the beginning of the musical-movie, “Fiddler on the Roof” I was happy because that is one of the nicer stories about the Jewish people portrayed in movies. It is also the stereotypical movie people affiliate Jews with and there is not a negative thing about that. Yes bad things happen in the

Most books about the Holocaust speak of the negatives with the horror of all the people killed during that time. There aren’t many books with positive stories except the few about survivors. While there were many more people killed during the Holocaust, there were lots of survivors. The book I read was “Defiance: the Bielski

Jews in both Western and Eastern Europe experienced a time of flourishing without persecution and living during peaceful times with the government who presided over each European country. The only real disagreement was between the Jews themselves with regard to their religion as with many things taking place at that time. This time it was

Jews lived in ancient Middle East for many years after Biblical times ended. They then entered the land of Israel with the prophet Joshua. They lived there through two temple destructions. They lived in Israel even as the Greeks and Romans ruled over them, but the Babylonians and Persians took them out of the land