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Jewish Mid Term

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(1) History of Jews in Poland   For centuries Poland was a unique shleter for persecuted and expelled Jewish Communities  
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(2) History of Jews in Poland   Under Boleslaus III (1102–1139), the Jews, encouraged by the tolerant régime of this ruler, settled throughout Poland  
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(3) History of Jews in Poland   Jews came to form the backbone of the Polish economy  
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(4) History of Jews in Poland   The talerant situation towards Jews was occassionally altered by the Cattholic Church and neighboring German States  
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(5) History of Jews in Poland   Some of the reigning princes protected Jews...who considered them desireable for the economy  
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(6) History of Jews in Poland   (in 1264) Boleslaus (prince of Great Poland) issued a General Charter of Jewish Liberties...which granted freedom of worship, trade, and travel  
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(7) History of Jews in Poland   (1548-1572) Zygmunt II August followed tolerant policies towards Jews, and granted autonomy to Jews in the matter of Communal administration (laid the foundation for the power of the Kahal)  
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(8) History of Jews in Poland   (by 1551) Jews were given permission to appoint their own Chief Rhabbi  
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(1) Jews of Poland Legal Status   they had the best legal status in all of Europe  
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(2) Jews of Poland Legal Status   less precarious # different charter (rights given by kings or princes) # did not need to be renegotiated # felt secure  
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(3) Jews of Poland Legal Status   depended on Nobles and aristocrats for safety support # Nobles protected Jews from the Church and Peasants (1st charter 1264) # Nobles viewed a Jew as indespensible  
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(1) Jews of Poland Population   Enormous growth in Jewish population in Poland  
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(2) Jews of Poland Population   1550...20,000 Jews # 1600...100,000 Jews # 1660...150,000 Jews # 1720...375,000Jews # 1765...750,000Jews  
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(3) Jews of Poland Population   flourished demographically and culturally  
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(4) Jews of Poland Population   Still seperate communities between Jews and Christians  
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(5) Jews of Poland Population   Felt as if they lived in their own community # Didn't feel a minority b/c within the community which they rarely ventured from they were the majority # Jews were highly concentrated in towns owned by Nobles in eastern Poland  
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(6)Jews of Poland Population   Fuedalism # most Jews in Europe lived in eastern Poland # Royal cities in western Poland restricted Jews # largest Jewish community # Jews migrated eastward in the late middle ages into Poland (from Germany and other States they had been expelled from)  
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(ID1a) Council of Four Lands   Central body of Jewish Authority  
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(ID1b) Council of Four Lands   In Poland (Great Poland, Little Poland, Ruthenia, Volhynia)  
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(ID1c) Council of Four Lands   1580 to 1764  
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(ID1d) Council of Four Lands   Seventy delegaters from local Kehillah met to discuss taxation and other issues important to the Jewish Community)  
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(ID1e) Council of Four Lands   Activity devided into four components (legislative, administrative, Judicial, Spiritual / cultural)  
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(ID1f) Council of Four Lands   Importance: the outcome of which was their exemplary communal organization (constituted a unit of self-government)  
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ID1g) Council of Four Lands   met twice a year  
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(ID2a) Chmielnicki Uprising   1648 to 1654  
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(ID2b) Chmielnicki Uprising   lead by Bohdan Khmelnytsky  
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(ID2c) Chmielnicki Uprising   Cossacks allied with Crimean Tartars and Ukrainian Peasantry rebelled against Polish-Lithuanian Nobles (Magnates)  
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(ID2d) Chmielnicki Uprising   Importance: began a period of Polish History called Deluge (which included various other uprisings against the Polish Commonwealth (Nobles)  
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(ID2e) Chmielnicki Uprising   Importance: Allowed elite members of the Commonwealth (elite Nobles) to make more money off less financial strong Nobles in the form of support / Killed many Jews and Nobles  
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(ID3a) Polish Magnates   were a social class of wealthy and influential Nobility in the kingdom of Poland (and later became the Polsih-Lithuanian Commonwealth)  
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(ID3b) Polish Magnates   Magnates (higher nobility) vied for political power with lesser and middle Nobility  
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(ID4a) Moses Mendelssohn   German Jewish Philospher in the 18th century  
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(ID4b) Moses Mendlessohn   translated the Torah into German  
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(ID4c) Moses Mendlessohn   This book became the manual of the German Jews teaching them to write and speak in German  
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(ID4d) Moses Mendlessohn   Importance: prepared German Jews for participation in German Culture and secular science  
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(ID5a) Sabbatean Movement   Messianic movement from1665 to 1666, which believed Sabbatai Zvi was the Messiah  
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(ID5b) Sabbatean Movement   Sabbatai Zvi was a Rhabi and a Kabbalist (he studied the Talmud and attended yeshiva as a youth), he was fascinated with mysticism and the Kabbalah  
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(ID5c) Sabbatean Movement   He traveled to Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo  
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(ID5d) Sabbatean Movement   he claimed he would lead back the Ten Lost Tribes to the Holy Land  
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(ID5e) Sabbatean Movement   How he gained supporters...mortifying the body through frequent fasting, singing psalms all night with a meoldious voice, pray at graves of pious men and women, distrubuted meats on the streets to children, married an orphan / prostitute  
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(ID5f) Sabbatean Movement   Dangerous b/c he broke Jewish Law (changed fasting days of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av into feasting days  
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(ID5g) Sabbatean Movement   Importance: he inspired the founding of a number of other similar sects  
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(ID6a) Talmud   record of Jewish disscussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, history  
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(ID6b) Talmud   Two components: Mishnah & Gemara  
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(ID6c) Talmud   Mishnah: Jewish Law (c. 200 CE)  
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(ID6d) Talmud   Gemara: discussion of Mishnah and related Tannaitic...basis for all Rabbinic Law (c. 500 CE)  
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(ID7a) Yeshiva   a Jewish institution for Torah study and thestudy of the Talmud  
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(ID7b) Yeshiva   caters to boys and men (taught by Rhabbis)  
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(ID8a) Kabbalah   is the mystical aspect of Judaism  
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(ID8b) Kabbalah   it refers to a set of esoteric teachings meant to define the inner meaning of (1) Hebrew Bible and (2) traditional rabbinic literature, as well as explain the significance of Jewish religous observances  
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(ID9a) Zohar   is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the 5 books of Moses)  
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(ID9b) Zohar   is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah  
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(ID9c) Zohar   it contains: (1) mystical discussion of the nature of God, (2) origins and structure of the universe, (3) the nature of souls / sin / good and evil / redemption  
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(ID10a) Hasidism   a pietistic movement which began in 18th century Poland  
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(ID10b) Hasidism   Founded on 2 components: (1) Religous Panentheism (omnipresence of God), (2) Communion between God and Man (an unbroken intercourse take place between the world of God and the world of humanity)  
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(ID10c) Hasidism   God influences man / Humanity influences the will of God  
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(ID11a) Tzadik (Rebbe)   Hasidic Religous Leader  
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(ID12a) Hasidim   Members of the Hasidic Movement  
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(ID13a) Mitnagdim   Opponents of Hasidism  
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(ID14a) Tikkun   means "repairing the world"  
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(ID14b) Tikkun   Restoring sparks of Holy Light to God (when God created)  
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(ID14c) Tikkun   will hasten the coming of the Messiah through pious deeds...which brings redemption (redemption is the completetion of God's act of creation)  
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(ID14d) Tikkun   The Messiah will come when redemption is complete (this will end wars, bring Jews back to Isreal, form Monarchy under the descendents of King David)  
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(ID15a) Isreal Ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)   lived from 1698 to 1760 and was born in a small village in Poland  
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(ID15b) Isreal Ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)   Considered the foundered of the Hasidism Judaism Movement  
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(ID15c) Isreal Ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)   little is known about him b/c only his followers wrote of him after his death with legends of his miracles performed (many contend he was the right person, at the right time, in the right place)  
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(1) Traditional Rhabbis   Rhabbis were judes of the Jewish Law (bear the law, make the law, teach the law)...monopoly on interpreting the law  
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(2) Traditional Rhabbis   led school for Yeshivot (schools for boys)..not just rabbinic but to study the Talmud also  
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(3) Traditional Rhabbis   Learning not just for elite, any man could become a Rhabbi  
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(1) Kehillah   had a quasi-goernmental authority over both the Jewish Community and its relationship with tthe Gentiles (Nobles)  
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(2) Kehillah   what is the Kehillah: The Jewish Council...it consisted of wealthy men most married and over the age of 25  
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(3) Kehillah   what did it do: collected taxes for Christian Government (king prince, or gov't), was how individual Jews dealt with the Christian authorities  
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(4) Kehillah   Christian Gov't saw Jews as a community, Jews couldn't exist outside the community, 1 Jew messed up...entire Jew community was punished  
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(5) Kehillah   Tools of the Kehillah: ex-communication (very powerful), denied kosher meat, fines, corporal punishment  
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