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Goals of the Jewish Diploma Project Essay

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The primary goal of the diploma project was to explain the impact of the Jewish community on the American culture at the turn of the 20th century. The author introduced the current behavior of the Jews in the United States. She also outlined the influence of the Jewish community on the culture, on the society, on the politics and on the finance of America and she described the social factors and character traits that facilitated the achievement of such a huge success which was assigned to the Jews in the every sphere of life.

With this diploma project, the important social and cultural changes caused by the behavior of the Jewish community were clarified. The Jewish success which was achieved by their co-operation and social unity was …show more content…

All of goals that were designated by the author of the diploma project have been met and described by her. With the vast amount of available materials, the author had an easy task in the analysis and in the presentation of subject matter of the diploma project. The only problem that she encountered on her way was the sub-chapter on African-Americans and their relationship with the Jewish community. The author wanted to describe their friendship and the co-operation in the struggle for the right to freedom and to equality, whereas she met with the unwillingness from African-Americans. It was so astonishing, because both communities were in a similar situation. They both were minorities in multicultural America. Both groups underwent persecution and discrimination. The author had expected that so many common problems could united these two ethnic groups. Notwithstanding, the present writer found many written sources and websites in which numerous negative opinions about the selfless help of the Jews from Black Americans have been described. Afro-Americans claimed that the Jews used them to achieve their higher education goals, without taking into account their opinions. They believed that the Jews won at Blacks expense the right to freedom of religion for his minority. In contrast, they maintained that the social situation of African-Americans remained unchanged. Jews were accused of disingenuous intentions. As a result, the negative

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