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Pale of Settlement   broad band of territory N-S where Jews could settle in Russia; forced to live in these areas unless had document; biggest= Odessa  
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Pogrom   state sponsored riots targeting specific ethnic groups  
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Jewish Daily Forward   biggest Jewish newspaper;editor= Abraham Cahan (novelist)  
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Boris Tomashevsky   Yiddish theater leading actor  
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"Uptown Jews" / "Downtown Jews"   Uptown: Manhattan= German Jews; Downtown: Lower East Side= Eastern European Jews  
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Landsmanschaft   lodge that provided insurance/sense of home; opened synagogues  
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Protocol of Peace   agreement that Louis Brandais to settle strike for cloak makers  
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Alliance   Jewish farm colony outside of Vineland  
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Am Olam Movement   farming movement in Europe to come to United States to farm  
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Baron de Hirsch Fund   Woodbine; support Jewish farm movement  
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Pittsburgh Platform   1885; reform Rabbi document with reform ideas  
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Jewish Theological Seminary   school for training conservative Rabbis  
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Solomon Schechter   head of JTS; founder/principle of conservative Judaism  
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Hebrew Union College   reform Judaism; Isaac Meyer Wise; Rabbis; Cincinnati Ohio  
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National Council of Jewish Women   1893; 2 goals- 1) education, 2) community service  
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Settlement Houses   house rented in ghetto/teach immigrants to be American; educational alliance in NY  
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Bernard Revel   leader of modern Orthodoxy; created Yeshiva College after WWI  
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Emma Lazarus   poet/writer; wrote "New Colossus" 1849-1887; devotion to Zionism  
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Zionism   Jewish state in the land of Israel for the Jewish people to live  
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Louis Marshall   attorney; American Jewish Committee  
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Father Charles Coughlin   used the radio to broadcast anti-Semitism  
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Louis Brandeis   Jewish Supreme Court Justice; head of Zionism; peoples attorney  
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Evian Conference   all countries met 1938; what to do with Jews in Europe?  
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Breckenridge Long   tried to keep Jewish refugees out of US; never met quotas  
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Henry Morgenthau JR   went to Roosevelt to set up War Refugee Board  
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War Refugee Board   1944; save Jews from Holocaust  
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Oswego, NY   camp for around 1,000 Jewish refugees from Hitler  
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Bess Myerson   first Jewish Miss America; wouldn't change last name  
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Hank Greenberg   wouldn't play baseball on Yom Kippur; 1930s-40s  
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Abraham Joshua Heschel   Holocaust survivor; big on Civil Rights  
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Jewish Renewal   takes best of 3 (reform, conservative, orthodox); based around Hebrew College transdenominational interfaith movement  
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Mary Antin   wrote "The Promise Land"; bio- to be an American  
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George Gershwin   composer; classical/broadway  
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg   justice on Supreme Court 1st Jewish woman; teacher at Rutgers  
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