How has the Jewish Nation been portrayed in film?
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The answer to that is as varied as the films themselves.  Any way to can imagine-there is a film to support that view.
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I e-mailed National Geographic and got this answer back:\n"The actors featured in the re-enactment are Tunisian (those scenes were \nfilmed in Tunisia):  Sami Temimi (Judas) and Bahran Aloui (Jesus)."\nI can't find any info on them in IMDB or through Google. I hope this helps!
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jewish people - the children of God
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Mostly whites and blacks hispanics are in front of the camera entertaining us.  100% behind the cameras producing, writing, and directing are Jews.\n\nThat's as diversified as Hollywood will ever be.
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well you cant with out using the bible. but you can reference a totalitarian government. this in itsself is a beast so if you turn it around like that it can bring all of your audience in. try linking it to the jew symbols in nazi germany if you get stuck but thats a real dramatic scene to bring into a paper when you may be able to get at the point with out using it.
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are you referring to the city or the movie? since your question's in the movie category, i assume this is about the movie? the one starring eric bana? This movie attempts to illuminate both sides of Israel's conflict. While the focus is on Israeli actions and choices, Palestinian and Arab motivations are present throughout the work. For me, Speilberg's treatment of both sides was an attempt at balance. Neither side is commended or exaulted for their behavior. Instead, the film attempts to generally question the nature of their decisions and acts. \n\nIf this film does make any stance on Israel and Palestine, it makes a general condemnation of the violence on both sides. Speilberg goes through great lengths to show the cycle of violence - lamenting the perpetual loss of life in violent conflict.\n\nThe film's conclusion extends Speilberg's effort to question violence and its role in human affairs. The protagonist chooses against returning home - he lives in exile. The cycle of violence has taken a toll on him. \n\nI'm unclear in deciding whether the protagonist approves or condemns of his own choices. But I do believe that he realizes that violence is not a future solution. \n\nI think that this was a geniune attempt at thoughtful reflection of the consequences of violent conflict. For a mainstream movie, this had unusual depth. I felt that there was an honest attempt to depict both sides as human beings - with rational, legitmate values and motivations. \n\nI would encourage anyone to see this film. Audiences should try to analyze both the film's perspective and their our own beliefs on the real world content behind the work. Any film that can spark people to pose these serious questions deserves attention.
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This is a film which has legend attached to it because by it's very nature it can't be out in public, but it is very, very real. I read a book by an Israeli journalist who nearly lost his life trying to track down this 'legend', and he got too close to seeing the real deal and they ('they' being the folks that make them)tried to kill him. They would have succeeded, too, had he not had alternate ID papers and used them to get away.  Scary stuff, these films and the evil, cold people behind them!
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Israel has its modern history in becoming a state in 1948, the same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  Ever since that time, people have been trying to eradicate the country and the people, much like Hitler's efforts during WW II.  Historically, it is a great shame for the human race that very few people cared a whit about the Jews, barring Poland and Russia on some occasions, until the effects of the holocaust were seen.  Today some even maintain it didn't happen.  Even Christians, so-called, have a bad record at mistreating the Jews.  Maybe we ought to blame that on Augustine, but following things blindly is one's own responsibility.  \nIsrael's early history goes back to the time of Abraham, some 2000 years before the birth of you-know-who. Abraham received the covenant for Israel from God. Israel was named after Jacob, son of Isaac.\nMoses came along around 500 years later and took them out of Egypt, but not from Ramses as the movie says, through 40 years in the desert and up to the Promised Land, although Moses himself was not allowed to go into it.  God left that to Joshua.  \nThe combined kingdom of Israel had three kings.  Its borders were the greatest under Solomon (970-931 BC), son of David (1010-970 BC), the Goliath slayer of fame. Oddly enough, the borders even under Solomon never seem to be as large as what God had promised them.\nAfter Solomon, Israel was split into north and south, the north being called Israel, because it had the majority of the tribes, or Samaria.  Samaria fell in 722 BC because it thought that God wasn't important any more.\nThe southern kingdom, aka, Judah, named by its largest tribe (Benjamin being much smaller) struggled until 586 BC where the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and tore down the temple.  They thought they could get along without God also. Isaiah talks about that.\nJeremiah talks about what happened when the Babylonians came.  Daniel talks about the time in Babylon and what God will do in the end of times.  It's all very exciting, unless, of course you don't believe in God, in which case Israel really doesn't have any rights to the land at all.  Fortunately, God believes in them and, as you might guess, doesn't break covenants. The temple was rebuilt when they returned from Babylon, but many stayed and, over the centuries, moved elsewhere.\nIsrael was almost most effectively destroyed due to the culture wars after Alexander the Great. The people were encouraged to try new things and give up their old ways and embrace new learning and the Hellenistic way of life.  It reminds one a lot of today.  Judas Maccabeus was a big hero around 161 BC.  The temple was desecrated and Hanukah was born, so to speak.  It's a great story and you should read it in detail to understand God.  After all, without Hanukah, we wouldn't have Christmas, but then you-know-who is out of fashion, I guess.\nYou-know-who predicted the second temple being torn down by the Romans and so it was in 70 AD.  AD means "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord."  The Romans in their hatred of the Jews, renamed the land Palestine, which comes from Philistine, which is kind of funny because the Philistines didn't live there ever. That land should always be called Israel because that's what God wanted it to be.\nSome 600 years later the Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem.  You can read about the Crusades and the Mamluks elsewhere. The Ottoman Turks controlled the area from the early 1500's until WW I, after which the British got control and didn't know what to do with it.  They gave it back in 1948, mostly because the Jews were a thorn in their side. It was a good move, except to Islam, whose ancestor is also Abraham. The conflict between Ishmael, later to find fame in a Melville novel, and and Isaac as well as Esau and Jacob created the whole thing.  Isn't that amazing?You have to wonder if the Bible has any clues t
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The history of the Jewish people begins with Abraham, and the story of Abraham begins when G-d tells him to leave his homeland, promising Abraham and his descendants a new home in the land of Canaan. \n\nTHIS IS THE LAND NOW KNOWN AS ISREAL NAMED AFTER ABRAHAM's GRANDSON, whose descendants are the Jewish people. \n\nThe land is often referred to as the Promised Land because of G-d's repeated promise to give the land to the descendants of Abraham. \n\nThe land is described repeatedly in the Torah.(In its broadest sense, Torah is the entire body of Jewish teachings.) \n\nTODAY,approximately five million Jews, more than a third of the world's Jewish population, live in the land of Israel. Jews make up more than 80% of the population of the land, and Jews are in political control of the land. \n\nThere are approximately 13-14 million Jews in the world. For details and links to population resources, see the Jewish Population page
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I am Jewish and can answer that anti-semitism can be fought by haiving people mix and mingle with Jewish people and have positive experiences/ Anit Israel existence and demonization comes from thos e who want the land as it is developed and fertile compared to other Middle East areas. We must stand up for our rights and protect our country always. Holocaust denial...keep showing people the real papers and the real thing if they think it did not exist. I can tell you it did and there exist many people who suffered as a result of it who are in their 80's now and still remembering the horrors of a person and his crazy viewpoints of races.\nKeep your ideas strong and your faith in who you are and what you believe in. Be proud to be part of a religion that is pure and tradtional and family -oriented. Be proud to have a history and a reason to defend it. Never let anyone take away your country , your faith or your history .
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In 1933, less than 1% of the German population was Jewish. Jews contributed significantly to German culture. Many served in World War I and thought of themselves as Germans first and Jews second. They considered Germany a home; their passionate ties and blind loyalty to Germany caused them to be blind to the harsh reality of anti-Semitic measures (Refugee Crisis 5).\n\nBefore the war, Hitler used the law  to effectively remove Jews from public life. Under the excuse of ensuring racial "purity," numerous decrees were passed allowing harassment, imprisonment, and murder. These decrees were aimed at not only Jews, but anyone defined as "non-Aryan" (5). More than 400 specifically anti-Jewish decrees were enacted based on the Nazi definition of "non-Aryan" ("Final Solution" 3).\n\nAfter the Enabling Act, violence against Jews escalated. On April 1, the Nazi regime called for a national boycott of all Jewish business. Lists of specific businesses and individuals to be boycotted were published. German Jewish leaders were ordered to deny reports of Nazi atrocities committed against Jews. The boycott lasted three days and revealed the efficiency of Nazi intelligence on Jewish economic life. The idea that it was permissible to destroy life without impunity was strengthened ("Final Solution" 2). Most of the Jewish leaders believed that the Nazi regime would be short-lived. German Jews who began to feel the stigma of isolation had no centrally organized spokesman or organized representation to protest. On April 4, 1933, the first law specifically dealing with Jews was passed (Refugee \nCrisis 5). \n\nJews were barred from civil service and on April 7; the German government issued an order firing all civil servants not of "Aryan" descent. This was the first instance of discrimination based on "race" which was consistent with German law. These actions created thousands of jobs for "Aryans." On April 11, a decree was issued defining "non-Aryans" as those who descended from "non-Aryan" grandparents ("Final Solution" 2). The Nazis issued instructional charts to help distinguish Jews from Mischlinge (Germans of mixed races) and Aryans. The white figures represent Aryans; black figures represent Jews; shaded figures represent Mischlinge (Race Laws 1). This law provided precedent for the concept of racial inequality. Differences between non-Jewish Germans and Jewish Germans became an issue of legal interpretation. This laid the foundation for a method of legalizing persecution (Refugee Crisis 5). On April 26, the state police came under the control of the Nazi government. The Gestapo had unlimited police powers; they could follow, arrest, interrogate, and detain without outside authority. Still ignorant of the reality around them and hopeful that the Nazi regime would collapse, Jews went to their local police for help. They appealed to the courts for protection or payment for damages caused by Nazis. Most could not believe that basic civil rights, due process under the law, and the right to a defense and appeal were no longer applicable (6). \n\nBook burnings became common in pre-war Germany. On May 10, 1933, in Berlin, the first of a series of book burnings took place. The effort was aimed at erasing literary and scientific contributions of intellectuals, specifically of Jewish scholars (6). On September 28, Jews were excluded from all artistic, dramatic, literary, and film enterprises. On September 29, Jewish farmers, or those with Jewish ancestors, could no longer own farmland and were denied rights to family property inheritance. 37,000 or more Jews left Germany in 1933, but many stayed hoping the terror would pass (6).\n\n1934 was marked by an increase in anti-Semitic actions and crushing all opposition. After the consolidation of power in 1934, the path was cleared for Hitler and the NSDAP-the National Socialist German Workers'
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Jews have always been in the area now known as Israel.\n\nA short allegory of Israel:\n\nPretend that Israel is an apartment building.\n\nSome jews live there, some Arabs (Jordanians). Many empty nasty apartments.\n\nThe Health Department says you Jews need a place to live. Take these places, fix them up, live here.\n\nTired Jews move into vacant apartments, in spite of the hatred and attacks and murders by the Arabs (Jordanians).\nThem fix up the apartments, live quietly, and protect themselves.\n\nHealth Department comes by and says, good job, you can keep the apartments and the building itself.\n\nJews now own the building. Arabs (Jordanians) say "Oh my God, they will murder and kill and rob and rape us simply because we murdered and killed and robbed and raped them, how unfair!!"\n\nArabs (Jordanians) run away leaving vacant apartments.\n\nAbandoned apartments become property of the landlords (Jews) and are turned over to other settlers who move in.\n\nArabs (Jordanians) go to all other Arab countries and whine about reparations and poverty. Other Arab Countries kick them out.\n\nArabs (Jordanians) decide that they need a new image.\n\n"Hey!!! We're Palestinizers now! Palestinites? Palestonians? Palesturgers??? (Gets out Liberal Arab Talking Points Crib notes) Oh! Palestineans! Right. These mean thoughtless cruel non burkah wearing Jews have DRIVEN us from our ancestral lands in Palestan. Wait!! Palestine. Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo (are the cameras still on me?) Hoo. We are peaceful people so murder them, rape their women, crush their children, blow up their weddings, funerals, cafe's, busses, wait - don't hurt the furniture, we'll need that!"
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Complex problems usually don't have simple answers (like 'they tried to throw the Palestinians out).\n\nFor over 3,000 years, Jews have held the Land of Israel to be their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised Land. The Land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites — including the remains of the First and Second Temple, as well as the rites concerning those temples. [2] Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium. Recent archeological evidence suggests that the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon may have existed. [3]\n\nUnder Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled due to mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire resulted in widescale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Arab states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.\n\nThroughout the centuries, the size of the Jewish population in the land fluctuated widely. Circa 1881, in the region approximating present-day Israel, the Jewish population numbered approximately 20–25,000 of a total population of 470,000.[citation needed] Since 1844, in Jerusalem the Jews have constituted the largest of several ethno-religious groups.[citation needed] By 1896, they were an absolute majority of the population\n\n\nThe rise of Nazism in 1933 led to a fifth wave of Aliyah. The Jews in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by 1940. The subsequent Holocaust in Europe led to additional immigration from other parts of Europe. By the end of World War II, the number of Jews in Palestine was approximately 600,000.\n\nIn 1939, the British abandoned the idea of a Jewish national home, and abandoned partition and negotiations in favour of the White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration and restricted purchase of land by Jews. Its other stated policy was to establish a system under which both Jews and Arabs were to share one government. The plan was never fully implemented because of a combination of resistance from the Jews and Arabs and Britain's pre-occupation with Europe and World War II. However, the White Paper guided British policy until the end of the term of their Mandate. As a result, many Jews fleeing to Palestine to avoid Nazi persecution and the holocaust were intercepted and returned to Europe. Two specific examples of this policy involved the ships Struma and Exodus[4]. These attempts by Jews to circumvent the blockade and flee Europe became known as Aliya Beth.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly (on November 29, 1947), the Arab leadership rejected the plan and launched a guerilla war that included attacks on Jewish civilians. The Irgun Tsvai Leumi retaliated with attacks on Arabs, including Arab civilians.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight of May 15, 1948,
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First the nazis said that all Jews look alike, and that the way they look was obvious to anyone who was not a Jew. Then they made the Jews wear the Star of David in order to distinguish them from non-Jews!
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it seems Jewish people were
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The former was their name before the State of Israel was established. The latter is their name now that Israel exists as a State, rather than a nation.
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You know, you have a lot of balls asking this question, unless you are a girl, then you have a lot of something else.\n\nIt is by no means a coincidence that these men are of Jewish decent, and what you heard IS right, not only is the US political economy controlled by the Jewish community, so is our foreign policy.\n\nNow, before everybody explodes and starts calling me a fascist Jew basher, I am absolutely NOT. Read my previous posts and you will see that I prefer to bash Christians.\n\nAnyway, in our political system it (unfortunately) has become normal for those in charge of the financial market (meaning those with hugely big bucks) to control policy by financing politicians' campaigns in return for favorable votes on certain issues. The money just happens to be in the hands of the Jews. If it were, say, the Mormons who had all the Big Money, then THEY would be getting their way.\n\nBut the past few generations have been conditioned to feel so much pity for the Jews because of Hitler's regime, (and for the most part, rightly so), it has become horribly politically IN-correct to even slightly criticize anything Jewish.\n\nOne good example of what I am talking about is Israel. WHY in the WORLD is our government so insanely preoccupied with a dry, barren country that has absolutely nothing to add to our economy? It can't be "because it is the right thing to do." In that case we should be doing the "right thing" in Africa and stopping the genocide there. I personally believe that our politicians are being put under pressure to maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy just to please the Jews who bought their office for them.\n\nP.S. They do breed some REALLY COOL Koi's in Israel. For those of you who dont know what Koi are, look it up, they are beautiful fish.\n\nP.P.S. I KNOW that Koi originate from Japan. But they are also bred in Israel.