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Sociology 20H - Chapter 14
Ethnic Relations
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
11/30/2010

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Who has the largest Jewish population?
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United States and Israel is 2nd
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Anti-Semitism
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Anti-Jewish prejudice or discrimination
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Judaization
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The lessening importance of Judaism as a religion and the substitution of cultural tradition as the tie that binds Jews
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Fringe of values theory
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Behavior that is on the border of conduct that a society regards as proper and is often carried out by subordinate groups, subjecting those groups to negative sanctions
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In-group virtues
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Proper behavior by one’s own group becomes unacceptable when practiced by outsiders (out-group vices)
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Out-group vices
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In-Group virtues that become unacceptable when practiced by outsiders.
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Holocaust
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The state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
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Holocaust revisionist
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People who deny the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews who minimize the numbers killed
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Zionism
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Traditional Jewish religious yearning to return to the biblical homeland, now used to refer to support for the state of Israel
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Diaspora
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the exile of the Jews from Palestine
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Schwer zu sein a Yid
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It is tough to be a Jew
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Jews founded graduate schools of:
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medicine, education, social work, and mathematics,
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kashrut
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laws pertaining to permissible and forbidden foods and their preparation
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Yiddishkait
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Jewishness
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Halakha
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Jewish laws covering obligations and duties
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Marginality
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the status of being between two cultures at the same time, such as the status of Jewish immigrants in the U.S.
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Peoplehood
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Milton Gordon's term for a group with a shared feeling
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