Unit 1 Test Flashcards
Who are Jewish people?
Might be born Jewish
Might practice the Judaic religion
May have converted to Judaism
What can Jewish identity be identified by?
Ethnicity (your relatives)
Religious Practice (observing the teachings of the Torah)
Cultural Identity (the community you belong to and traditions you follow)
matrillineage
your mother’s side of the family; often
Who are some famous Jewish people?
Albert Einstein, JESUS, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Spielberg
proselytizing
seek to convert anyone; Judaism is NOT a proselytizing
What is the oldest religion?
Judaism
Torah
first five books of the bible
prejudice
to pre-judge
scapegoat
the anger of the majority group is taken out on another group.
Antisemitism
prejudice, hatred, discrimination, and/or violence against Jewish people;
Comes from the Greek word “anti” meaning against and Semite meaning a descendant of Shem (an ancient Jewish biblical figure)
Social Darwinism
the theory of natural selection and ‘survival of the fittest’ was mistakenly and inaccurately applied to human beings. These ideas were used to claim that some races were superior to others.
What century did Jewish people begin to slightly surpass antisemitism and take part of modern society?
19th century
Who was the German Journalist who was the first recorded person to use the term ‘anti-semite’ to describe people who hated Jews. He argued that everything that was wrong in Europe was wrong because of the Jews.
Wilhelm Marr
Shoah
the mass murder of Jewish people under the german Nazi regime
holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
Who wrote ‘Not all victims were Jews but all Jews were victims’
Elie Wiesel
The Holocaust
The state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Approximately how many were murdered during The Holocaust?
6 million
Who besides Jews were murdered during The Holocaust?
Gypsies
the handicapped
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Soviet prisoners of war
individuals with disabilities
LGBTQ+
political dissidents
Genocide
incidents committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such:
Examples of things considered genocide
-Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Ten stages of Genocide in order
- CLASSIFICATION
- SYMBOLIZATION
- DISCRIMINATION
- DEHUMANIZATION
- ORGANIZATION
- POLARIZATION
- PREPARATION
- PERSECUTION
- EXTERMINATION
- DENIAL
CLASSIFICATION
way to distinguish
SYMBOLIZATION
names or other symbols ex. nazi yellow star
