exam december

Question 1

how and why did shlomos identity change

Answer 1

he pretended to be jewish to survive. religiously

Question 2

after the destruction of the second temple, what did the jews want and why

Answer 2

the messiah to bring them back their homeland

Question 3

what were gods promises to abraham,

Answer 3

1) make abraham a great nation/name
2) people that bless abraham, will be blessed
3) abraham’s descendants will be given land and an alter
4) permanent possession of the land for abraham and his descendants
5) abraham,s descendants will be as numerous as the dust on the earth
6) when jews spread through the world, god will watch them and bring them back to israel

Question 4

motto during the first temple

Answer 4

nation in its land

Question 5

motto during the second temple

Answer 5

land as center

Question 6

motto post second temple

Answer 6

land as messianic hope

Question 7

why did isaac go to the king

Answer 7

there was a famine and he wanted to ask the king for fertile land

Question 8

what does the city of slaughter poem talk about

Answer 8

exaggerated how the jews acted during the kishinev pogrom (not proud of them)

Question 9

when was the kishenev pogrom

Answer 9

1903, lasted 3 days

Question 10

what was the goal of leon pinsker autoemancipation essay

Answer 10

talked about how jews needed a homeland and how jews could only be a nation if they had a homeland.

Question 11

who was alfred dreyfus

Answer 11

jew that was falsely accused of being a traitor

Question 12

who was herzl

Answer 12

founder of zionism (1896)

Question 13

what was the basel programme

Answer 13

zionist congress in 1897
they believed to form a jewish state;
settlement of farmers and manufacturers
uniting jewry by means of institutions
fostering jewish sentimental connection to israel
gaining consent of other governments
we’re all necessary

Question 14

what was hebrew used for/as

Answer 14

to connect and communicate with each other
a common language
studying

Question 15

who were the halutzim

Answer 15

pioneers

build new agricultural settlements using only jewish labour

Question 16

why was learning hebrew difficult

Answer 16

there were no hebrew textbooks

Question 17

who was eliezer ben yehuda

Answer 17

responsible for revival of hebrew in israel

Question 18

who was aHad ham

Answer 18

founder of cultural zionism

russian member of jewish enlightenment

Question 19

who was vladimir jabotinsky

Answer 19

zionist leader

Question 20

what was the ideology of political zionism

Answer 20

jews need their own land not for religious reasons

Question 21

what was cultural zionism

Answer 21

establishing palestine by small settlement aimed at reviving jewish spirit in a modern world
wants people who are engaged in jewish culture to settle in palestine

Question 22

what is synthetic zionism

Answer 22

led by chaim weizman

jnf raises money to buy land from arab owners (arabs dared more about money than land)

Question 23

what is religious zionism

Answer 23

hope for messiah to come and build third temple

aims to restore jewish political freedom and religion in light of the torah

Question 24

what is socialist zionism

Answer 24

everybody works together for the greater good, kibbutz movement
children don’t live with parents
everybody has a different job on the kibbutz

Question 25

what is practical zionism

Answer 25

zionist youth groups

cant just talk about it, have to work for it

Question 26

what is the old settlement

Answer 26

people who had been there for many generation with old ideology
chalukah = charity that collected funds to support israel
didn’t like pioneers because they had modern ideas

Question 27

why were there gated communities

Answer 27

so that thieves and gangs couldn’t strike

Question 28

what was the first aliyah

Answer 28

major wave of zionist immigration to israel between 1882-1903
wanted to start the future of israel
not successful

Question 29

what was the second aliyah

Answer 29

wanted to destroy the middle class and instead create a jewish working class
creating a system to help someone without getting anything in return

Question 30

aliya bet

Answer 30

illegal immigration to israel

10,000 immigrants came to palestine illegally because jews weren’t allowed in

Question 31

what was the churchill white paper

Answer 31

continuation of the balfour declaration
land was called palestine and whoever lived there was a palestinian citizen
gave moslems their own institutions

Question 32

what was the declaration of independence

Answer 32

jews were now a nation not only a religion
zionist leaders met in secret so arabs would t attack them
homeland was not only founded because of WW2, they needed hope/home
golda meir was the only girl to sign it