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Flash Cards for Test 1 Terminology

1
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Father of Monotheistic religion

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Abraham

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2
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Old Testament and New Testament

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Biblical Literature

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3
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Belief of a single god

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Monotheism

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4
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Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
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Hebrew Bible (First 5 books)

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5
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Treaty; Pact

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Covenant

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6
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Removing of the foreskin of the Penis

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Circumcision

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7
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Jewish tribes

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Israelites

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8
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God promises this land to Abraham, and eventually delivers it to descendants of Abraham, the Israelites.

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Canaan

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9
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Place where israelites were enslaved

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Egypt

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10
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Lead Israelites from slavery (Egypt)

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Moses

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11
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10 punishments in acted upon Egypt for the enslaving the israelites

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Plagues

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12
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A remembrance of the time God passed over the houses of the Israelites during the great Plagues

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Passover or Pesach

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13
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Site where moses found the 10 commandments

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Mt. Siani

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14
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List of 10 Moral wishes commanded by God

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10 commandments

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15
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Book of the Hebrew Bible

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Torah

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16
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Jewish Moral and Ethical Laws

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Challachah

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17
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Uniter of Jewish tribes in Jerusalem

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David

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18
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Son of David

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Solomon

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19
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Geographic center for Jewish belief; established during the rule of David

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Jerusalem

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20
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Vessel for the 10 commandments

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Ark of the Covenant

21
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Center of worship and life for israelites

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Temple in Jerusalem

22
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Who destroyed the temple in 587 BCE and was lead by Nebacanezer?

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Babylonians

23
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Who allowed the israelites to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their sacred Temple?

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Persian Empire

24
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Term referring to the genocide of Jews by Nazi occupied Germany?

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Holocaust or Shoah (total destruction)

25
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Jewish term describing the Attack against the Jewish way of life

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Pogram

26
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Who destroyed the holly Temple in the year 70 CE and banned Israelites from Jerusalem?

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Roman Empire

27
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Teacher of the Torah

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Rabbis

28
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Jewish Place for worship

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Synagogues

29
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Attempt to keep ones own personal & religious beliefs? a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area?

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Dispersion or Diaspora

30
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Central text of Rabbinic Judaism

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Talmud

31
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Study of jewish text? Meant to be an open conversation about the text where students can question and understand the sacred teachings?

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Rabbinic Judaism

32
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which emperor made Christianity a state religion? and in what year?

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Constantine in the year 312 CE

33
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Term used to describe “No religious practice”

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Zionism

34
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a descriptive term for descendants of Jews who emerged from the Holy Roman Empire around the turn of the first millennium, and established communities in Central and Eastern Europe. The traditional language of these Jews was Yiddish.

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Ashkenazi

35
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Non-Jew

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Gentile

36
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Charge of Killing GOD

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Deicide

37
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Christian organized movement to punish the Jews for the death of Jesus

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Crusades (1096 CE)

38
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period of time when Jews were being converted to christianity

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Middle Ages

39
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What year was the Jewish Migration to Poland

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1290-1300 CE

40
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Small town made up of <40% jewish population

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Shetl

41
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Language spoken by Jews of Eastern Europe

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Yidish

42
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the term given to a region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed.

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Pale of Settlement

43
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He is considered to have been the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the founder of the State of Israel.

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Theodore Herzl

44
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“reviver” of the Hebrew language

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Eliazer Ben Yehuda

45
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Following the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik seizure of power led to the Russian Civil War which continued until 1922. The victory of the Bolshevik Red Army enabled them to set up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Throughout the civil war various religions, secularism and the militant atheism of the Bolsheviks played a key role in the military and social struggles which occurred during the war.

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USSR 1917

46
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German agents in charge of gathering Jews for eradication

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SS

47
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Hitlers secret state police

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Gestapo

48
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Question which plagued Hitler, “How do we get rid of the Jews?”

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Jewish Question

49
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is the national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel.

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Zionism

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