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Night
A set of vocabulary used in the book Night
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Language - English
10th Grade
06/07/2016

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Talmud
Definition
the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500
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Anti - Semitism
Definition

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

 

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Shtetl
Definition
a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
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Ghettos
Definition

an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live

 

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Liberation

Definition

the act or fact of gaining equal rights or full social or economic opportunities for a particular group.

 

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Emaciate
Definition
to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
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Pogroms
Definition

an organized massacre, especially of Jews.

 

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Kaballah
Definition
Kabbalah is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism..
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Kaddish
Definition
Kaddish is a hymn of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service.
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Shekhinah
Definition
(in Jewish and Christian theology) the glory of the divine presence, conventionally represented as light or interpreted symbolically (in Kabbalism as a divine feminine aspect).
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Shtibl
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Little room centered for Jewish prayer.
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Beadle

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ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution.
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Mystical

Definition
of or relating to mystics or religious mysticism
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Zohar
Definition
The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah
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Gestapo
Definition
Secret State Police was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
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Shavuot
Definition
Shavuot is one of the less-celebrated Jewish holidays among secular Jews in the Jewish diaspora, while those in Israel are more aware of it.
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Fascism
Definition
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
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Bagel

Definition
bagel is actually a pretzel
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Gurtle
Definition
belt
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Fart
Definition
usually quite pleasant and does not stink.
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Nylon
Definition

nylon meaning bakery 

 
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Kind
Definition

 trust me, not all are kind.

 
the word for “child” – hence “Kindergarten” is children’s garden.
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Gift

Definition
meaning poison
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Schmuck
Definition
meaning jewelry
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cuckoo

Definition
meaning ponytail
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