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geography test
judaism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the dispersion of the Jews following the crushing of the Jewish state by the Romans in AD70. today, the term is used to describe the communities of Jews living outside Israel | diaspora |
| ad eight day Jewish festival of lights which takes place around the winter solstice. it is based on the story about the victory of an ancient Jewish army in which a small amount of oil found in a temple lasted miraculously for eight days | Hanukkah |
| a small group among orthodox Jews who follow beliefs that were part of a religious revival in eighteenth-century Poland | Hasidic Jews |
| the most conservative of the three modern branches of Judaism | orthodox Judaism |
| a spring holiday in Judaism that celebrates the liberation of the Hebrew slaves and the exodus of Egypt | passover |
| a sudden, unprovoked raid. the term originally referred to attacks on Jewish settlements during the last decades of czarist rule in Russia | pogrom |
| a religious movement, originating in nineteenth-century Germany, which aims to adapt Jewish traditions to the conditions of modern life | Reform Judaism |
| a body of literature, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, recording debates and discussions of ancient rabbis on a wide range of subjects | Talmud |
| the first five works of the Bible, which form the core of the Jewish doctrine | Torah |
| the day of Atonement. It is the most solemn fast day of the Jewish calendar and is the climax of the penitential season, which begins in late summer | Yom Kippur |
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