Vocab

Question 1

Hasidic

Answer 1

Referring to a branch of Judaism that promotes spirituality through mysticism

Question 2

Synagogue

Answer 2

Place of worship for Jewish people

Question 3

Kabbalah

Answer 3

Jewish tradition of interpreting the Bible using mysticism

Question 4

Mysticism

Answer 4

Belief that closeness to a divine deity can be achieved through contemplation and surrender

Question 5

Zohar

Answer 5

Chief Jewish text of the Kabbalah

Question 6

Gestapo

Answer 6

Official secret police of Nazi Germany

Question 7

Rosh Hashanah

Answer 7

Jewish New Year festival

Question 8

Zionism

Answer 8

Movement advocating for the reestablishment and development of a Jewish homeland

Question 9

Fascist

Answer 9

Person who follows fascism; belief that needs of a nation are greater than personal liberty; authoritarian form of government

Question 10

Anti-Semitic

Answer 10

Having ill or violent feelings towards the Jewish people

Question 11

Passover

Answer 11

Jewish Spring festival celebrating the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt

Question 12

Ghettos

Answer 12

Places where Jews were held during the early parts of the Holocaust; separate from regular communities

Question 13

Red Army

Answer 13

Nickname of the Soviet (Russian) Army during WW2

Question 14

Rabbi

Answer 14

Jewish scholar who often studies Jewish law

Question 15

Auschwitz

Answer 15

Location of a Nazi concentration camp

Question 16

Birkenau

Answer 16

Name of concentration camp located at Auschwitz

Question 17

Kaddish

Answer 17

Ancient Jewish prayer sequence

Question 18

Gypsy

Answer 18

Member of an ethnic group referred to as gypsies; known for traveling throughout Europe; and speak Romany

Question 19

Concentration camp

Answer 19

The camps used by Nazis to detain and murder Jews

Question 20

Crematorium

Answer 20

Place where corpses are cremated (incinerated)

Question 21

Aryan

Answer 21

Name of the ethnic group Hitler believed to be the superior race; not of Jewish descent

Question 22

Himmler

Answer 22

Leading member of the Nazi party

Question 23

Yom Kippur

Answer 23

A ten day religious fast that begins with Rosh Hashanah

Question 24

Dysentery

Answer 24

An infection of the intestines that leads to severe diarrhea

Question 25

Talmud

Answer 25

Jewish text outlining sacred and civil laws