Antisemitism

A detailed Summary of Antisemitism


"It isn't fair, it isn't right!" screams Tessie, a girl unjustly sentenced to death in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. These words may also have been uttered by Aryeh Lev, the protagonists father in My Name is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok. Aryeh, a pious Jew, was born into an unjust anti-Semitic world that oppresses his people, places the weight of his people upon his shoulders and blights him with an obstinate son.

Aryeh Lev has lived in an anti-Semitic world all his life. Aryeh's father "was killed by a drunken axe wielding peasant." (pg 5) It is unjust beyond a doubt for Aryeh to be born into a world "that hates Jews." (pg 358) Aryeh was not only born into an Anti-Semitic world but into a country with a history of anti-Semitic policy which began under the Czarist regime in which the grandfather of the Rebbe of th


e landover hasid movement "spent ten years in prison under." (pg 80) "But the Rebbe's father was also imprisoned under the Bolsheviks." (pg 80) The Bolshevik regime was another Russian Government who famously changed Russia to the USSR. This communist government caught Jews, "and sent them to Siberia where they perished." It is completely unjust for Aryeh to have been born into such a world.

Aryeh Lev is a man who lives n a horrible, unjust world. Yet, Aryeh faces up to this unfair world full of anti-Semites, obstinate children and oppressive governments. Aryeh Lev is a man to be admired. A fighter a scholar and a hero Aryeh is looked down upon unjustly, and should be admired by both Gentile and Jew.

Due to rampant Anti-Semitism and his obstinate son Aryeh carries the weight of the world upon his shoulders.

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