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    Western Tradition Summary

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    The Western Tradition video on the rise of the Church begins with Christ and his disciples preaching to the Jews. This preaching contained the beliefs that a day of judgment would come when good would be rewarded and evil punished, instead of the Hebrew tradition of the coming of a Messiah creating the Kingdom of God on earth. One of the disciples, Paul, was initially a devout Jew, who punished Christians as heretical. This changed when Paul had a dream that showed him Jesus was the Son of God.…

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    On January 30, 1930, the tragic holocaust started and many jews suffered. From men to women, and then children, have died in concentration camps because of who they are…..they are jews. There are three reasons how, jews suffered in concentration camps. First of all, jews were forced to strip naked, even girls! Yep, thats right, jews were to strip naked, so the germans could easily torture them without a struggle. The germans piled shoes, clothes, and everything in a pile, and on with the torture…

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    Anti Semitism Before the Holocaust Why is that the world blames the Jews for its problems? The Holocaust is known as the universal example of Jewish persecution, but was it the first time Jews encountered anti Semitism? Much of the world likes to think that it was started by the Nazis, but this is by far erroneous; the Holocaust was by no means the catalyst of anti Semitism. Antisemitism is known as the prejudice against Jews. “The term [Anti-Semitism] was first used by a German in 1879,…

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    The hatred by Hitler towards the Jews boilover "On November 9, 1938, the Nazis initiated pogroms against the Jews in all Nazi territories.” After Hitler did that, he built camps to hold the Jews. Hitler murdered the Jews for his own enjoyment. Hopefully, you can tell that Hitler doesn't like the Jews. Body paragraph 2 The Jews' willpower is…

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    included sisters, Josephine Lazarus, Sarah, Mary, Emma, Agnes and Annie; and there was also a brother, Frank. Lazarus became more interested in her Jewish ancestry after reading the George Eliot novel Daniel Deronda, and as she heard of the Russian pogroms that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. As a result of this anti-Semitic violence, thousands of destitute Parnham 2 Ashkenazi Jews emigrated from the Russian Pale of Settlement to New York. Lazarus began to advocate on…

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    The Kindertransport was a rescue industry, which brought thousands of Jewish refugee children to Great Britain during the Holocaust between 1938 and 1940. This is one of the most well-known rescue movements of children. It was called “The Movement for the Care of Children from Germany”, later known as the Refugee Children’s Movement. Children with Jewish background suffered discrimination and persecution during the national socialist regime in Germany from 1933 onwards (Hammel, 2016, p. 239).…

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    Essay On Black Death

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    The Black Death was considered as one of the most devastating pandemics in world history. It began in Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The plague killed 75 millions of people and killed two thirds of Europe’s population. People were getting affected by the disease and dying each day. The aftermath let the civilians to began to question which led to the Renaissance and the Church losing its power. The Black Death originated from China and inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the…

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    American Immigration

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    “Imagine a ne born babe in possession of a fully developed intellect. Would it ever forget its entry into the world? Neither does the immigrant ever forget his entry into a country which is, to him, a new world ... in which he expects to pass the rest of his life" -Abraham Cahan. The new world for immigrants was America it had a large amount of things about it that were difficult. The majority of immigrants lived in overcrowded tenement houses, but still called it the land of the “golden door”.…

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    Ernst Vom Rath

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    According to the German government, Kristallnacht, or crystal night, came about because of an event that occurred in Paris on November 7, 1938. This event being the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat, by a young Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan. Herschel’s reasons for murdering Ernst vom Rath were that his parents had been among the thousands of Polish Jews forced out of Germany who were not allowed into Poland and that he wanted to bring worldwide attention to the terrible…

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    environment where Jews and other undesirables such as gays, gypsies, and communist began facing persecution decades before this state-sponsored mass murder campaign, which systematically started in 1941. The Nazis extermination policy that began with pogroms and clear directed violence was recognized and known by other Western counties. One of the most devastating accounts of human rights…

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