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
