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Key Term Quiz

Key Term Quiz


This activity contains 10 questions.

	Prejudice and discrimination against Jews is called:   anti-Semitism. Judaization. Zionism. Yiddishkait.

	Judaization is the:   process of moving from being a Reform or Conservative Jew to becoming an Orthodox Jew. custom of following all the Jewish traditions for the celebration of holidays. process of converting to Judaism. lessening importance of Judaism as a religion and the substitution of cultural traditions as the ties that bind Jews.

	Behavior which is on the border of conduct that a society regards as proper and which is often carried out by subordinate groups, subjecting those groups to negative sanctions is called:   out-group-vices theory. in-group virtues theory. marginality. fringe-of-values theory.

	Which sociologist developed the concepts of in-group virtues and out-group vices?   Milton Gordon Robert Merton Elie Wiesel Gordon Allport

	The state sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi German and its collaborators was called:   Zionism. Judaization. the Holocaust. halakha.

	The claim that the state sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi German and its collaborators did not happen:   is called Holocaust revisionism. is a belief that is held by as much as 3 percent of the world's population. was a position taken by Nazi war criminals during their trials. only a and b.

	Zionism:   is a form of racism and racial discrimination, according to a controversial resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974. has been manifested in the twentieth century movement to create and support a Jewish state in Palestine. refers to the old Jewish religious yearning to return to the biblical homeland. all of the above.

	The Jewish laws pertaining to permissible and forbidden foods is called:   shadchan. halakha. kashrut. apikoros.

	It is difficult for a Jewish woman to get a divorce recognized by the Orthodox Jewish tradition because of rules that are called:   amhaaretz. kashrut. shadchan. halakha.

	Which sociologist refers to peoplehood as a group with a shared feeling?   Gordon Allport Milton Gordon Robert Merton Elie Wiesel

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