Membership Quiz

Question 1

torah

Answer 1

first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Question 2

synagogues

Answer 2

place of Jewish worship

Question 3

rabbis

Answer 3

Jewish religious leaders

Question 4

Palestine is present day…

Answer 4

Israel

Question 5

Jewish history in Palestine

Answer 5

When Jews in Palestine were conquered by Romans, they refused to worship Roman gods. Some Jews suggested rebellion, while others like Jesus suggested reform. His disciples separated from Judaism, resulting in other Christian churches.

Question 6

Jerusalem

Answer 6

claimed as capitol city and Holy land by Christians and Muslims

Question 7

What is a stereotype?

Answer 7

widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular person or thing

Question 8

antisemitism

Answer 8

hostility to or prejudice against Jews

Question 9

Early Church to 1400

Answer 9

European Catholic hierarchy accused Jews of crucifying Christ. Romans destroyed Jewish temple in Jerusalem 70 AD as punishment. Only minority religion on Catholic continent. Pogroms common.

Question 10

Early Church to 1400 stereotypes

Answer 10

Jews served devil. caused Black Death, only converted for material gain

Question 11

Blood Libel

Answer 11

myth that Jews killed Christian children and used their blood for ritual purposes

Question 12

1300-1800

Answer 12

Jews invited to settle in Europe with restriction on residence (ghettos). Encouraged to perform managerial and commercial tasks, so many practiced usury - lending money - because Christians considered charging interest on loans sinful. Could not own land, serve as military officers, or join Guilds. Could only have state service jobs if they converted.

Question 13

1300-1800 stereotypes

Answer 13

work with money because they’re greedy, cowards that avoid military service, preferred meaningless study over hard work

Question 14

1800-1918

Answer 14

European nations established equality in constitutions, so now Jews could live and work among non Jews. Overrepresented in future-oriented jobs like finance, banking, medicine, law. More politically engaged, but antisemitism parties formed. Best time for Jews before downhill.

Question 15

1800-1918 stereotypes

Answer 15

communists, control of media, blocked Christians from certain fields, converted for material gain

Question 16

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Answer 16

antisemitic publication, fiction documenting Jewish conspiracy to take over the world

Question 17

World War I

Answer 17

Three trends developed during and immediately after:

1. Stab in the back legend
2. Bolshevik Revolution and Russia
3. Versailles Treaty

Question 18

Meaning of stab in the back legend

Answer 18

Austria and Germany claimed Jews and communists were internal traitors working with foreign interests

Question 19

Meaning of Bolshevik Revolution belief

Answer 19

Claimed that Jews were supportive of revolutionary regimes

Question 20

Meaning of Versailles Treaty conspiracy

Answer 20

Embarrassed and angered Germany. Thought to be manufactured by Jews for their own benefit.

Question 21

1875-1945

Answer 21

Intellectuals and politicians developed racist perception of Jews and belief in white supremacy. Contact with natives in the Americas, Asia, Africa supported social darwinism.

Question 22

1875-1945 stereotype

Answer 22

Jews were polluting Aryan blood through intermarriage for world domination

Question 23

Social Darwinism

Answer 23

Ranking races. Humans are divided into races biologically driven to struggle against each other, and the fittest (Aryans) survive and come out on top.

Question 24

Samuel Morton

Answer 24

Philadelphia surgeon who hypothesized link between brain size and race to prove white supremacy. Claimed races were fixed, incapable of being changed, intrinsically different.

Question 25

Paul Broca

Answer 25

French anthropologist warned against race mixing. Believed only “compatible” races would produce fertile offspring. His research supported separate but equal case Plessy v. Ferguson.

Question 26

Ernst Haeckel

Answer 26

German biologist who believed in social Darwinism and eugenics. Ranked races: Aryans on top, Jews and Africans on bottom.

Question 27

Rudolph Virchow

Answer 27

In research under German Anthropological Society, studied Jewish and Aryan children and concluded they were more alike than different.

Question 28

Setting for Armenian Genocide

Answer 28

WWI in Muslim Ottoman Empire

Question 29

Why were Armenians targets in the Ottoman Empire

Answer 29

Christian minority in Muslim empire, and other Armenians were in Russia, which was enemy land, so they could be seen as traitors.

Question 30

What happened to Armenian men, women, and children?

Answer 30

Men were separated from women and children and executed or put in labor camps. Women and children were marched out/deported and suffered death from starvation, rape, and forced marriages.

Question 31

What evidence existed that Armenians were being targeted?

Answer 31

NYT was reporting on it, Secretary of State called for protection, Ottomans claimed that they were relocating them for safety but being attacked by others, but negligence and menace shined through the facade.

Question 32

Some violent acts carried out against Armenians

Answer 32

public hangings, mass execution, labor camps

Question 33

Story of the Sneeches

Answer 33

The star-bellied considered themselves better than the non. The salesman offered a machine to make the non into star-bellies, but the original star-bellied didn’t like that they couldn’t be identified anymore, so the salesman offered a machine to take the stars off. It turns into a loop of on and off until the salesman leaves and everyone is left not knowing who was originally what, so they recognize one is not superior than they other, that it was just surface level differences, and live equally.

Question 34

Story of the Twilight Zone episode

Answer 34

Janet Tyler went in for her 11th surgery to fix her face. She was traditionally beautiful and everyone else deformed, but it was flipped in the Twilight Zone. When Janet’s last surgery leaves her still “ugly” she is forced to go live in isolation with people of her own kind because the government does not allow differences, only conformity.

Question 35

Story of Jane Elliot

Answer 35

3rd grade teacher from Iowa. Taught her class about discrimination through a simulation with eye color. Blue eyed people were superior one day, and brown-eyed people the next. The superior group received advantages like extra recess, whereas the inferior group were called names, reprimanded, forced to wear collars, and couldn’t play with the others or drink from the same water fountain. The superior kids even completed the card game faster.