Then and Now recap!!!

Question 1

The name of the 13th century Ashkenazi Rabbi who refused to allow the Jews to ransom him from the dungeon of the emperor

Accepted Answer

Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg

Question 2

Rav Shlomo Halberstam 1908-2000 was the third Rebbe of Bobov

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he and a son Naftali survived the Bochnia Ghetto and rebuilt in America., at the end of WW2 only 300 chasidim remained, He opened a trade school in Manhattan for refugees, After losing his wife and children in the Holocaust he remarried

Question 3

The non-Jewish nobility in Eastern europe used the Jews to collect taxes and do their other dirty work

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True

Question 4

in the Judengasse, Jew street, in Frankfurt where Mayer Amshel Rotschild 1744-1812 grew up

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Jews were barred from visiting public gardens or coffee shops, Jewish people could not leave at night, Jews could not walk in public in groups of more than two, Jewish people could not leave on Sundays and holidays

Question 5

100,000-300,000 Jews departed,including Don Isaac, The last Jews left Spain on Thursday, August 2, 1492, Tisha B'Av.

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True

Question 6

1809, Napoleon convened a group of rabbis whom he called the Great Sanhedrin. It is still active today

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False

Question 7

Beginning in the 1400s, the center of Jewish life shifted from Western Europe, Spain and the Mediterranean to

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Eastern Europe

Question 8

after 26 jews were rebaptized by the church they pirated the ship on the way to Malta and never served their sentence

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True

Question 9

Many Christian scholars studied Hebrew. The Puritans were one result of this trend and needed jewish translators.

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True

Question 10

Jews were prevented from living anywhere within about 35 miles of the Russian border as they were a security risk

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True

Question 11

Due to antisemitism almost 20% of the immigrants to the usa were turned back for one reason or another.

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True

Question 12

Dutch East India Company, responsible for settling so much of what would become America, was financed and headed by Jews

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True

Question 13

finally allowed to leave the Ghetto Abraham Geiger and the early reformers removed all mention of Jerusalem from prayer

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True

Question 14

Beginning in 1412, anti-Jewish laws began to appear in northern Spain. The Jews were

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to not be called by Christian names or addressed by any title, to not be farmers, doctors, pharmacists, blacksmiths, tailors or shoemakers, To not wear garments of either silk or satin

Question 15

by the year 1038 with the Death of Hai Gaon the majority of Jews live in Spain(Sefard) or Germany (Ashkenaz)

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True

Question 16

1532 He visits emperor Charles V carrying a flag with the Hebrew word Maccabi and met for 2 days

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True

Question 17

Shulchan Aruch(israel) published with the Rema(poland) is the great Reunification of Ashkenazi and Sephardic tradition

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True

Question 18

Why did some Jews advocate against the Boycott of ancona in the aftermath of the persecutions by the pope?

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The pope would die soon and all would be ok again, it would be seen as an open declaration of war between Christians and Jews, There were still Jews in Ancona

Question 19

The Period of the Gaonim, deans of the great Yeshivos of babylonia, is from 500 to 1038 C.E

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True

Question 20

How did Jews come to Italy?

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Titus brought successive waves of Jews as prisoners and slaves, during Roman rule of Israel

Question 21

1659 Shabetai Tzvi marries a torah in a public ceremony in Salonica " He is warmly embraced by the Rabbis as Messiah

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False

Question 22

The Jews of Salonica were so successful at fishing that it was known

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among the non-Jews that one could not buy fish on the Sabbath

Question 23

The word "quarantine" has its roots black plague as In Ragusa 30, then 4o day isolation period was issued for newcomers

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True

Question 24

Diego Pires, secretary of the high court of appeals of Portugal converted and he became Shlomo Molcho, who

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became a famous preacher through Italy and Turkey, Became a master Talmudist, Studied under great kabbalists, Met with the pope to create a Judea/christian army

Question 25

Today there are over 20,000 Bobover Chasidim in America

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True

Question 26

In Polish, the saying was that every nobleman had his “Moshke,” the Polish word for Moses.

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True

Question 27

The Jewish Journey Begins in Syria then to Israel, to Egypt, to Israel(3292 years ago) to Persia(1000 years later) to

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Israel to Babylon(Iraq)

Question 28

The Reish Galusa was the

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Third in command in the Babylonian Court, Exilarch( Head of the Exiled community), leader of the Jewish community in Babylon

Question 29

The first auto-de-fe was held in 1481, and the last in 1731

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True

Question 30

King Ferdinand of Aragon who expelled the jews had converso ancestry

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True

Question 31

When a number of Polish noblemen converted to Judaism, what did the church do?

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burn the noblemen at the stake

Question 32

1800's Jews married young. The average age of marriage in Eastern Europe was estimated to be between 14 and 16.

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True

Question 33

How often did the average European change their clothes in the 1300's?

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Yearly

Question 34

March 1992 the expulsion is rescinded but without an apology as to do so would be "unfaithful" to Spanish history

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True

Question 35

Turkish sultan , "Can such a king be called wise and intelligent — one who impoverishes his country and enriches mine?"

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True

Question 36

in 1827, Czar Nicholas signed into law, “The Decree of the Cantonists.

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it meant Army service for 25 years, it meant forced conscription for jews from as young as age 8, it included attempts at forced conversion

Question 37

1486, Torquemada petitioned Ferdinand and Isabella to expel the Jews from Spain, but they refused so

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He tried to poison the atmosphere and stir public wrath against jews, in 1490,the Inquisition fabricated the tale of the Holy Child of La Guardia

Question 38

Whenever a pogrom started, the first place attacked was usually the

Accepted Answer

Jewish owned Taverns

Question 39

As the antisemitic British government didn&#x27;t allow Holocaust survivors to go to Israel an illegal underground was formed

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which was dedicated to illegal emigration, it conscripted Jewish refugees to march hundreds of miles to travel to Pale, it infiltrated all of the DP camps

Question 40

Papal Bull 1250 new synagogues need special permission and Jews are forbidden from appearing in public on Good Friday.

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True

Question 41

Which of these was said by Martin Luther, the founder of the reformation 1483-1546?

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they are nothing but thieves and robbers, set fire to their schools. and bury with dirt whatever will not burn, Therefore, the blind Jews are truly stupid fools., He did not call them Abraham’s children, but a “brood of vipers” Matt. 3:7

Question 42

The yellow badge originates in the

Accepted Answer

early 700's Ummayad caliphate

Question 43

King Casimir III of Poland prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

Chmielnicki contributed to the deaths of 500,000 and is one of the greatest butchers of history. He has a statue in Kiev

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

After the death of the king in 1038 Shmuel Ibn Joseph becomes

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a published author of a talmudic commentary, Head general of the Arab armies, a prolific poet, both in religious and secular realms., vizier and is known as the Prince

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