Quiz 2 Vocab Flashcards by Casey Kimball

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Adon Olam

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Lord of the world

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Synagogue

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Jewish House of Worship

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Shabbat

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A Jewish holiday that happens every week

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Ladino

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Medieval Spanish and Hebrew

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Yiddish

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Medieval German and Hebrew

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Shofar

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A musical instrument (horn)

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Minyan

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A quorum of 10 adult jews

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Bar Miztvah

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A rite of passage for Jewish boys

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Bat Mitzvah

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A rite of passage for Jewish girls

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Oseh Shalom

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A special prayer which asks for peace

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Temple

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Ancient holy structure

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Shul

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“School”

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Scale

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Arrangement of adjacent notes

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Psalm 150

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Praising god with instruments

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Nevi’im

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Biblical prophets

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TANACH

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Complete Hebrew Bible

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Torah

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First five books

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Alef Bet

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Hebrew Alphabet

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Sephardic

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Jews that speak Ladino

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Ashkenazic

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Jews that spoke Yiddish

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Chazzan

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Musical leader of Jewish Music

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Cantor

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Musical leader of Jewish service

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Cantillation

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Singing the bible

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Rabbi

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Spiritual leader of jewish congregation

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K’tuvim

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Writings of the bible

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Hebrew

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Language of the bible

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The reading of the prophets

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Haftarah

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Aramaic

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Language of jesus

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Diaspora

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Jewish people outside of Israel

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Kashrut (kosher)

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Practice of keeping kosher

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Liturgy

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Prayers of a religion

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SATB

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Soprano, alto, tenor, base

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Trope

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Cantillation symbols

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Salomone Rossi

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Wrote polyphonic church choir music

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Duke Vincenzo of Mantua

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Rossi’s patron

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Mathieu le Juif

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Medieval trouver; obscure poet

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Obadiah the Proselyte

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Wrote down jewish music

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Chazzan Alberto Mizrahi

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Cantor who sings Ocho Kandelikas

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Rabbi Leone de Modena

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Rossi’s advocate; wrote books in Hebrew/Italian

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Cairo Geniza

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Storgage place for holy documents

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Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn

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Song from Yiddish theatre by Andrews Sisters

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CHABAD/Lubavitch

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Sect of Chasidic Jews

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Itzhak Perlman

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Greatest violinist of all time

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Nigun

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Wordless melody

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Rabbi Schneerson

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Had no children, died and 7th in line of chief rabbi in Lubavitan community

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Rebbe Elimelech

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Fictional character in a silly song

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Shlomo Carlebach

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One of the greatest singing rabbis

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Sholem Aleichem

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Yiddish author and playwrite and wrote about Tevye the Dairyman. Fiddler on the roof

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The Forward

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Oldest Yiddish newspaper

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Theodore Bikel

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Greatest folk singer of Judaism and other music

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WEVD

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Jewish radio station