Night Vocabulary

Question 1

Beadle

Answer 1

A religious official

Question 2

Cabala

Answer 2

The Jewish mystical tradition based on interpreting the revelations of the scriptures

Question 3

Fascism

Answer 3

A political system founded in Italy after ww1 that emphasized nationalism and an authoritarian government

Question 4

Gestapo

Answer 4

Hitlers secret state police that suppressed opposition to his government and organized concentration camps

Question 5

Ghetto

Answer 5

An area of the city where members of a minority are forced to live

Question 6

Mysticism

Answer 6

Direct contact with the divine, often accompanied by prayer or meditation

Question 7

Nazism

Answer 7

A set of political and economic doctrines, which included the belief that Germans were of a superior aryan race and that Jews were evil and dangerous

Question 8

Passover

Answer 8

Jewish festival celebrated in the spring commemorating the exodus from Egypt

Question 9

Revelation

Answer 9

Something that is revealed, such as religious truth

Question 10

SS

Answer 10

The staff guard or black shirts are an elite police force that served as hitlers bodyguard

Question 11

Talmud

Answer 11

A collection of Jewish writing that comment on and interpret biblical laws

Question 12

Transylvania

Answer 12

A historical region of western Romania bounded by the Transylvanian alps and the carps thuan mountains

Question 13

Zionism

Answer 13

The movement to establish a Jewish national state