Quiz 2 Vocab Flashcards by Casey Kimball

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Adon Olam

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Lord of the world

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Synagogue

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Jewish House of Worship

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Shabbat

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A Jewish holiday that happens every week

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Ladino

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Medieval Spanish and Hebrew

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Yiddish

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Medieval German and Hebrew

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Shofar

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A musical instrument (horn)

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Minyan

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A quorum of 10 adult jews

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Bar Miztvah

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A rite of passage for Jewish boys

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Bat Mitzvah

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A rite of passage for Jewish girls

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Oseh Shalom

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A special prayer which asks for peace

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Temple

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Ancient holy structure

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Shul

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“School”

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Scale

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Arrangement of adjacent notes

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Psalm 150

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Praising god with instruments

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Nevi’im

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Biblical prophets

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TANACH

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Complete Hebrew Bible

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Torah

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First five books

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Alef Bet

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Hebrew Alphabet

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Sephardic

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Jews that speak Ladino

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Ashkenazic

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Jews that spoke Yiddish

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Chazzan

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Musical leader of Jewish Music

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Cantor

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Musical leader of Jewish service

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Cantillation

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Singing the bible

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Rabbi

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Spiritual leader of jewish congregation

K'tuvim

Writings of the bible

Hebrew

Language of the bible

The reading of the prophets

Haftarah

Aramaic

Language of jesus

Diaspora

Jewish people outside of Israel

Kashrut (kosher)

Practice of keeping kosher

Liturgy

Prayers of a religion

SATB

Soprano, alto, tenor, base

Trope

Cantillation symbols

Salomone Rossi

Wrote polyphonic church choir music

Duke Vincenzo of Mantua

Rossi's patron

Mathieu le Juif

Medieval trouver; obscure poet

Obadiah the Proselyte

Wrote down jewish music

Chazzan Alberto Mizrahi

Cantor who sings Ocho Kandelikas

Rabbi Leone de Modena

Rossi's advocate; wrote books in Hebrew/Italian

Cairo Geniza

Storgage place for holy documents

Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn

Song from Yiddish theatre by Andrews Sisters

CHABAD/Lubavitch

Sect of Chasidic Jews

Itzhak Perlman

Greatest violinist of all time

Nigun

Wordless melody

Rabbi Schneerson

Had no children, died and 7th in line of chief rabbi in Lubavitan community

Rebbe Elimelech

Fictional character in a silly song

Shlomo Carlebach

One of the greatest singing rabbis

Sholem Aleichem

Yiddish author and playwrite and wrote about Tevye the Dairyman. Fiddler on the roof

The Forward

Oldest Yiddish newspaper

Theodore Bikel

Greatest folk singer of Judaism and other music

WEVD

Jewish radio station