Judaism Quiz 4

The Balfour Declaration

Announced that England favored Jewish establishment in Palestine

The fist preplanned and organized mass killings of Jews by the German government

Kristallnach 1938, sparked when a low-level German diplomat was killed by a young Jew

When the Germans occupied Denmark in 1940, the Danes

Moved the entire Jewish population to Sweden

Moses Mendelssohn described Judaism as a

Philosophy and religion

The foremost Jewish thinker of the above movement was

Spinoza

Since the Holocaust, the Roman Catholic Church has

declared that Jews today are not to be blamed for the death of Christ

The term pogrom means the

Massacre, anti-Jew riot

The second wave of Jewish immigration into the USA was in

Mid 19th century (German Jews)

While German Maskalim defined Judaism as a religion, the Russian Maskalim defined it as

National movement

The three major movements of contemporary American Judaism are

Orthodox, conservative, and reform

The are of the Russian Empire in which its Jews were required to live was called

Pale of Settlement

All three of these movements grew out of the

Process of modernization

The term Semite was coined in the 19th century to describe Jews as a

Race, possessing a distinct set of inherited characteristics

What group of Jews adopted the idea that the Jewish way of life in venerated not by God but by the Jewish people themselves?

Reconstructionist

Which of the three movements adopted the idea that Judaism was the product of a continuously unfolding revelation on the human mind that came about through divine inspiration?

Reform

Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish officer in the French Army

That was convicted of being a spy

Wylen calls the intellectual vanguard of modernism

The enlightenment

Wylen calles Moses Mendelssohn

The first liberated Jew

The founder of modern Zionism is said to be

Theodore Herzl

Wylen says that the name of Palestine was given to the land of Judea

To destroy the memory of Jewish independence

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a document that purported to be a plain

To dominate the world

The Baalei Teshuvah Movement attempts to

Toward a modernist interpretation of Judaism

Wylen says that there was never a time in the history of Palestine when

it was soverign

The third wave of Jewish immigration into the USA came in the

1881-1924 (Eastern European Jews)

The Jews of Palestine Declared their independence in

1948

The territory under Israeli control dramatically expanded after the war of

1967

Which wave of Jewish immigration brought the most people to America?

3rd wave

Positive Historical Judaism was the forerunner of what has become

Conservative Judaism

Israeli Jews define themselves as either

Dati, hiloni, mesorati, or haredi

In 1648, a Cossack rebellion led by Bogdan Chmielnicki resulted in the

Death of 300 million Jews

From the mid-1500s until the Second World War, the largest concentration of Jews in the world was in

Eastern Europe

The three major movements of American Judaism all began in

Germany

The first wave of Jewish immigration into the USA began in

Colonial Period- 1654

Int he 19th century, Czar Nicholas I planned to deal with Russia's new Jewish population by

1/3 forced to emigrate, 1/3 forced to convert, and 1/3 forced put death