In Davita’s Harp, by Chaim Potok, Ilana chooses to go to Yeshiva. Throughout Davita’s Harp, Ilana makes great strides both towards and away from religion. She goes towards religion after her father dies and she starts to say kaddish. Then moves away from yeshiva and religion when she isn’t given the Akiva award because of her gender. Even though she deserves to get it, she has to now settle for less which she is not willing to do. Ilana chose to get closer to religion and go to shul, after her father died and from hearing the Helfman’s all the time. Michael Chandel was Ilana’s father, who wrote articles for newspapers. Michael Chandel died in Spain when he was reporting on a strike. He saved a nun which, is ironic because he is a non-religious
Christian. After her father past away she very slowly moved towards religion by following the Helfman’s to shul and listened to them sing and pray. Then she entered the shul and started to say Kaddish for her father. By going to shul she started to learn about Judaism and she became more involved in religion. Ilana switches schools at the end of the book because of the situation with the Akiva Award. In Ilana’s school, the Akiva Award is the best award a person could get, it is another way of saying a valedictorian. Ilana worked extremely hard on both her secular and Judaic studies, especially because she was behind her class in Judaic studies and had to catch up to their level. At the end of 8th grade, she was at the top of her class and was expected to get the Akiva Award. When the school announced that she will not be the receiver of the Akiva Award, Ilana was very upset. When she asked for an explanation of why she was not given the award Mr. Helfman said that it was because of her gender and it would look “bad” if the school gave a girl the award, rather than a boy because boys should be superior to girls in academics. By the school being sexist and not giving Ilana the award because she is a girl it made her pull away from religion. She thought, what religion makes is so that women are put down and can never be better than boys. Now that Davita has left yeshiva she if free. It is like the horse picture that moved from house to house with her. It is symbolism because it is a sign of freedom of expression, which Davita sure has a lot of, and proves that she doesn't just sit back when she wants something. Throughout the book, Ilana became closer and farther from religion. She became closer after her father’s death. She began to say Kaddish for him. When Ilana was at the end of 8th grade she grew farther from religion because the religion didn’t respect her and, women in general. She didn’t get what she deserved and it was all because the school was afraid to ruin their image of a “perfect Jewish school”.
To begin with, on April 20, 1926 in Raesa, Romania Anna Seelfreud was born. In Anna small town of Raesa lived about 1,000 people and 50 Jewish families. Jews were known to be respected people in the town. Anna grew up
He gave her his coat and she told him the story with the Partisan unit. After walking or a block, Sava took her to this museum where there was a couple, Serif and Stela, and their baby son, Hebib, “Lola looked up and recognized her. It was the young wife who had given her coffee when she came to collect the laundry” (78). The couple had welcomed Lola into their home and gave her shelter. They gave her the Muslin name Leila, dressed her in Muslim clothes and told her that she was here as maid to help Stela with the baby. After weeks, Lola was getting used to living with Serif, Stela, and Habib and was less afraid of getting caught by German soldiers. One day Serif came back from library and had brought the Haggadah, a Jewish book, with him. Stela was worried about having the book in their house so serif returned it to the library of the mosque where it will probably not be found by the Nazis. Afterwards, they had traveled “outside the city, at a fine house with a high stone wall” (89), where Lola said goodbye to Stela and the baby and her and Serif walked into the dark.
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...uried next to her parents in a nonreligious service. Since her death, she has been known as a successful artist.