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
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Approximate Word count = 554
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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