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Israel w/ Ophir
Near Eastern Studies 349R; BYU-Jerusaelm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sepharad, Sephardic | |
| Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic | |
| Rashi | |
| Maimonides | |
| Yavneh | |
| Tiberias | |
| Mishna | |
| Oral Torah | |
| Written Torah | |
| Talmud | |
| Yeshiva | |
| Blood Libels | |
| Pogrom | |
| Ecclesia and Synagoga | |
| Persecution in Spain, Inquisition | |
| Chmielnicki | |
| Shtetl, Kehilla | |
| Vilna Gaon | |
| Hasid, Hasidism | |
| Rebbe | |
| Besht | |
| Mitnagdim | |
| Shabbetai Zvi | |
| Kishinev | |
| Emancipation | Jewish legal status pre and post |
| Enlightenment | Jeswish haskala |
| Napoleon's Sanhedrin | |
| "Frenchmen of the Mosaic persuasion" | |
| "Be a man on the street and a Jew in your tent" | |
| "Jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals" | |
| Reform | |
| Conservative | |
| Orthodox | |
| Nuremberg Laws | |
| Einsatzgruppen | |
| Resettlement | |
| Generalgouvernment | |
| Vichy | |
| Judenrat | |
| Kristallnacht | |
| Final Solution | |
| Ghetto | |
| Yellow Star | |
| Gas Chambers | |
| Concentration & Extermination Campls | |
| Mount Herzl | |
| Autoemancipation | |
| Aliya | |
| 1st Aliya | |
| 2nd Aliya | |
| 3rd Aliya | |
| 4th Aliya | |
| 5th Aliya | |
| Yishuv | Old and New |
| Kibbutz | |
| Moshav | |
| Theodore Herzl | |
| Alfred Dreyfus | |
| Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) | |
| Altneuland (The Old-New Land) | |
| Labor Zionism | |
| World Zionist Organization | |
| Clandestine Immigration | |
| World Zionist Congress | |
| Basel | |
| Haganah | |
| Histadrut | |
| Balfour Declaration | |
| Partition Plan 1947 | |
| British Mandate | |
| Degania | |
| Uganda | |
| "Night-Refuge" | |
| Hovevei Zion | |
| BILU | |
| UNSCOP | |
| White Paper | |
| Economic Absorption Capacity | |
| Cyprus | |
| Clandestine Immigration | |
| Outcomes of the War in 1948 | |
| Outcomes of the War in 1967 | |
| Knesset | (assembly) Israeli Legislature, uni-cameral (one body) with 120 members (symbolically, 10 from each of the 12 tribes) that make up one district for entire country with proportional representation. |
| Coalition Government (Coalition Politics) | A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that coalition. No party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament. |
| "Basic Laws" | Key component of Israel's constitutional law. Deal with the formation and role of the principal state's institutions, the relations between the state's authorities, and civil rights. They are used on a daily basis by the courts as a formal constitution. |
| High Court of Justice | Supreme Court of Israel. HCoJ rules as a court of first instance, primarily in matters regarding the legality of decisions of State authorities: Government decisions, those of local authorities, and direct challenges to the constitutionality of laws. |
| Oslo Process | A peace process aimed at a peace-treaty to fulfil the "right of the Palestinian people to self-determination". Includes Oslo Accords, resulting in the recognition by Israel of the PLO as the representative of Palestinians and as partner in negotiations. |
| New Zionist Organization | Revisionist Zionist party founded by Jabotinsky to conduct independent political activity for free immigration and the establishment of a Jewish State. Not to be confused with the Zionist Organization, from which Jabotinsky left. |
| Revisionism | Revisionist Zionism. Jabotinsky established the Revisionist Zionist Alliance, which advocated a revision of the principles of Political Zionism. Their principal aim was to change Chaim Weizmann's moderate policies toward the British Mandatory regime. |
| Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky | (1880 Russia-1940 NYC); a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. |