Week 6 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Christianity becoming Roman religion
380 CE. This resulted in anti-semitism within the empire.
Jews under the Abbasids
They were not oppressed like during the Roman empire, they were seen as dhimmis, and allies in monotheism.
The Gaonic Period
The Geonim were Jewish leaders under the Abbasids who transmitted the teaching of Talmud.
The Karaites
A group of Jewish scholars who maintained the authority of the Tanakh.
Maimonides
Followers of Moses ben Maimon who fled oppression under the Almohad muslims in Iberian peninsula. Very influential Jewish scholar.
Mishneh
A book of Jewish law created by Maimon.
Conversos
Jews who converted to Christianity so they wouldn’t be persecuted in the Spanish Inquisition.
The Kabbalah
A mystical tradition in Judaism. Thought to be influenced by Sufism.
Isaac Luria
An influential Kabbalah scholar. He introduced the concept of ‘Tikkun’.
Tikkun
It means restoration to Kabbalahs.
Sabbatai Zvi
At first a Kabbalah, then converted to Islam.
Jews in the Ghetto
A term for the segregation of Jews in the 16th century to Eastern Europe.
Hasidism
Countered the rabbinic leaders who exaggerated the necessity of scholarship to know God.
Tzaddik
Righteous men in Hasidism in Judaism.
Mitnagdim
They opposed Hasidism. They thought it didn’t give enough time to studying the Torah.
The Jewish Question
With the emancipation of Jews, this term began to arise as to whether societies should accept Jews or not.
The Dreyfus Affair
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, who was accused of spying for Germany. The case was very anti-semitic.
Protocol of the Elders of Zion
A book that claimed that Jews were plotting global domination. It was Russian.
Zionism
Ideology of Jewish Nationalism.
Aryan People
Refers to Indo-European family of languages. Non-semitic.
