Chapter 14

Question 1

anti-Jewish prejudice and discrimination

Answer 1

anti-Semitism

Question 2

the lessening importance of Judaism as a religion and the substitution of cultural traditions as the ties that bind Jews

Answer 2

Judaization

Question 3

prejudiced people believe they are society’s victims

Answer 3

scapegoating theory

Question 4

state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its callaborators

Answer 4

Holocaust

Question 5

people who claim the Holocaust did not happen

Answer 5

Holocaust revisionists

Question 6

initially referred to the old Jewish religious yearning to return to the biblical homeland, has been expressed in the twentieth century in the movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine

Answer 6

Zionism

Question 7

the exile of Jews from Palestine several centuries before Christianity

Answer 7

Diaspora

Question 8

the laws pertaining to permissible and forbidden foods

Answer 8

kashrut

Question 9

Jewishness

Answer 9

Yiddishkait

Question 10

Jewish law covering obligations and duties

Answer 10

halakha

Question 11

the status of living in two distinct cultures simultaneously

Answer 11

marginality

Question 12

a group with a shared feeling

Answer 12

peoplehood