By: Dovrat Shchori & Shlomit Fogel.

Rachel, who is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, has experienced a different life than any normal person should experience. Any child, who has grown up in the environment holocaust survivors, can tell that they were difficult people to be around. They might be overprotective when it came to their children, but the reason for that might be that they went through difficult experiences as children, and they want to make sure that their children won’t suffer what they went through. We can see in our story that Rachel was already tired of hearing the things that her father went through, she wanted to move forward in her life, and not live in the past like he did. That is the way she raised her daughter, Raya. She taught her to live for the moment and look forward, to the future, not constantly ponder the past, like her father always did. Rachel knew that she didn’t want her children to have the same life that she did; she wanted them to move on. Maybe even to forget what happened then, and to concentrate on what is happening now, and plan for the future. However, Rachel still felt a connection to the past. Although she had a difficult childhood, the past was still a part of her and her life. We can see how these feelings come to be when her father and her daughter, Raya, had an argument about the name of Raya’s baby, who was going to be born in the near future. Rachel’s father, Grandfather Zisskind, wanted the baby to be named Mendele, after his son who had died in the Holocaust. Raya and her husband, on the other hand, wanted to name the child Ehud or Osnat, new and modern names. Rachel was in the middle of this whole conflict, because on the one hand, she wanted to move on, and not wallow in the past, and the name that her father offered would not help her do that. On the other hand, she wanted her children to look to the future, and the names that they had offered would have that exact effect. We don’t sense too many regrets that Rachel had in raising Raya. She taught her to move on, and not to stay and live the past. Rachel might have regretted the education that she gave her daughter when she realized that Raya wasn’t interested in what she or her father had to say about the future baby’s name. Raya and her husband named their baby Ehud, like they had planned to, and that made things between them and Grandfather Zisskind very rocky. In the article “What I’ve Learned from Men” by Barbara Ehrenreich, she gives the reader her opinion about the way that women act and about the way that they should act. Ehrenreich says that women are too gentle, and they aren’t demanding enough. She says that women should say what they think, just like men do, and not keep all their thoughts inside. They should be “Women”, and not “Ladies”. In “The Name”, Rachel is very gentle with anything and everything that she says. She doesn’t come out and say what she thinks. She’s always trying to compromise, so that both sides will be happy. She doesn’t take a stand, and she doesn’t stick to her own opinion. If Rachel would had taken a stand, and given her real, true opinion, instead of always making sure that everyone else is happy, maybe she would feel better about what had happened between Raya and grandfather Zisskind. Reflection: In this project, we have gotten a better view of other people towards women. We enjoyed working on the project and discussing the difference between men and women. We feel that we did well on this project because we worked together, and helped each other, and we feel like we’ve covered all the information, and in the best possible way! In the end, it turned out great!! J Our teacher helped us out quite a lot, she was very considerate and understanding, and we appreciate the exceptions that she made for us. She gave us an opportunity to change and fix our project when needed, and we appreciate it greatly! We would really be happy to see and read our friends project, that way we will be able to enrich our knowledge!! J We hope that you enjoyed reading our project as much as we enjoyed writing it!! Bibliography: “What I’ve Learned from Men” by Barbara Ehrenreich.