Terms Flashcards
What is Pale of Settlements
When Jewish Artisans during the Polish Partitions are moved to an area between Poland and Russia, and are restricted to what cities they can enter and leave.
What are the Polish Partitions
At the end of the 19th century Poland and Lithuania were being divided up by the three Empires, Prussia, Russia, Hapsburg
What is a Pogrom?
Moments of violence against Jews. Local Violence.
What is a Diaspora?
a scattered population whose origin lies in separate geographical locale.
What is Shetls?
Small towns with large Jewish populations
Kishinev pogrom?
Two children are killed and it is blamed on the Jews and a riot breaks out in which several jews are murdered.
Mendel Bailis case?
Little boy found dead and Bailis a Jew is blamed for it and is eventually acquitted. Find his not guilty but a jew is definitely guilty.
What is Blood Libel?
accusing Jews of kidnapping Christian children in order to use their blood in religious rituals
What does Ostjuden mean?
Jewish People of Eastern Europe. WesternJews more wealthy/ Eastern Jew tend to Orthodox and poor.
What is the 5 Year Plan?
It was plan by Stalin to industrialize Russia
Collectivization
elimination of private property, procurement from farms, collective farms to collect crops
What is a Kulak?
Land owner, wealthier peasant, saw as being difficult to mold,
What is the Gulag?
prison system, re-education, free labor,
What is Holodomor
Referring to the Ukraining famine between 1932-1933
First person to coin the term genocide? and initiate that genocide convention.
Raphael Lemkin
