SRS 1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antisemitism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1112
• Professor: Theodore Debruyn

Document Summary

Jews have shared history, shared identity (brothers and sisters) experience of anti-semitism, sense of belief in one god, sense of practice under belief, In shanghai - chinese protected jews in the world war before japanese invated - i was not there when that happened, but i felt it was my story . Anti-semitism in iran and iraq motivated him to change his views on jewish people. As a teenager - didn"t think much about the holocaust or state of israel - wasn"t part of his life. There must be practices that can bring greater life - in college he didn"t think that judaism had much to off him - found buddhism very attractive - practiced meditation. Now how a better understanding of judaism and personal understanding. Happy that judaism allows for him to continue meditating. Anti-semitism - there were times where jews could not enter canada, could not go to u of t.