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Israel w/ Ophir
Near Eastern Studies 349R; BYU-Jerusaelm
Term | Definition |
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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. |