Essays on Zionism

Jewish identity studies often present complicated findings because Judaism is interconnected with overlapping aspects of culture, religion, ethnicity, education, and connections to Israel. Therefore, there is a need to study Jewish identity as a multi-layered occurrence in the context of the dominant cultures in which they thrive. Anti- Semitism, Zionism, Shoah, and Israel are key aspects expressing the contemporary Jewish identity and practices such as choice and freedom, peoplehood, and religion have been interlinked with personal and group identification of Jews. Ideally, several typologies, comparative studies, theoretical, philosophical and creative writings offer varied concepts and ideas about the Jewish ...

Throughout the course of modern history, numerous events have revolved around the Middle East, affecting the cultural perspectives of the people living there. For instance, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent political maneuvering by Western/Arab nations spawned decades of bloodshed in the region, destroying both an entire generation of people and the viability of a nation. The creation of Israel in 1948 created a massive power shift in the region, as the Arab nations attempted to retake the territory but were soundly defeated, and again in 1967. The Second World War engulfed the North African Muslim countries, ...

Introduction

Contemporary academic analysis is concentrated on the issue of states’ emergence. The former is analyzed in different social, political, and economic contexts. Such state of affairs can be explained from the practical point of view, meaning nowadays there are many players at the international level which have recently appeared. However, in order to understand the nature of the aforementioned processes, the historical analysis is thought to be of great importance, since lots of contemporary phenomena took place in the previous centuries. Thus, in this paper, the correlation between the Sykes-Picot agreement, formation of the Palestinian identity, and creation of ...

Christians and Jews have different perception and attitudes towards the state and the land of Israel in the post-1948 period. This difference is based on the fact that Jews seem to oppress inhumanly the Palatines yet oppression is not acceptable in the Bible. Moreover, there are some Palatines who are Christians and the Jews unconditional thirsty of imposing their influence and extending their borders exploit the Palestine’s rights. The basis of the attitudinal differences is that Jews perceive and connects everything about the state of Israel and the Holocaust. On the other hand, Christians perceive the two issues ...

ENGL 2650-201

Marcus Garvey First of all, Marcus Garvey convinced his followers the primary need of black people was the formation of their own nation. He called it “Back to Africa” movement. Garvey encouraged the descendants of black slaves to return to their historic motherland (Sewell, “The architect of a world of free minds”). The starting point of Garvey`s reflections was the conviction in the futility of attempts to integrate black people into white society. The black diaspora did not have any possibility to fully participate in the social and political life of the West. Such a situation was generated ...

Introduction

The Egyptian Jewish community is comprised of two groups of people: indigenous Arabic-speaking Rabbanites and Karaites who have Judeo-Arabic culture, of which some claim to have had their residence in Egypt since the pre-Islamic era[ CITATION Emi00 \l 2057 ]. Most of them reside in Cairo's Jewish quarter, in the port district of Alexandria, and in several provincial towns[ CITATION Emi00 \l 2057 ]. The two groups dispersed to various nations for social and political reasons. This research paper will explore the dispersion of the Egyptian Jewry with emphasis on the factors that contributed to the dispersion.

Economic reason for the dispersion

The Karate Jews of ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a battle involving the Jewish nation of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East regarding the region called Palestine. The expression refers to the political strains and overt fighting involving the Arab society and the Jewish people in the Middle East that have existed for more than a century. The name ‘Palestine’ has been linked variously and at times contentiously with this small area. Both the geographic region known as such and the political standing of the expression have undergone changes over the course of time. The Palestine region, or a fraction of it, is also called ...