1Night Reading GuideImportant terms – give a brief definition of the terms bellow:Holocaustdestruction or slaughter on a mass scale,especially caused by fire or nuclear war.Jewa member of the people and cultural communitywhose traditional religion is Judaism and whotrace their origins through the ancient Hebrewpeople of Israel to Abraham.Hasidicrelating to or denoting Hasidism, a mysticalJewish movement founded in Poland in the18th century in reaction to the rigidacademicism of rabbinical JudaismTalmudthe body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law andlegend comprising the Mishnah and theGemara. There are two versions of the Talmud:the Babylonian Talmud (which dates from the5th century AD but includes earlier material)and the earlier Palestinian or JerusalemTalmud.Beadlea ceremonial officer of a church, college, orsimilar institution.Kabbalahthe ancient Jewish tradition of mysticalinterpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orallyand using esoteric methods (including ciphers).It reached the height of its influence in the laterMiddle Ages and remains significant inHasidism.GestapoThe Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviatedGestapo, was the official secret police of NaziGermany and in German-occupied Europe.Ghettoa part of a city, especially a slum area,occupied by a minority group or groupsAushwitzThe Auschwitz concentration camp was acomplex of over 40 concentration andextermination camps operated by NaziGermany in occupied Poland during World WarII and the Holocaust.KommandoA Kommando is a general term for specialpolice and military forces in German, Dutch,and Afrikaans speaking nations.KapoA kapo or prisoner functionary was a prisoner ina Nazi camp who was assigned by the SSguards to supervise forced labor or carry outadministrative tasks.TransylvaniaA region in the west of Romania.BlockaltesteLiterally, “block elder.” These were inmatesin charge of a single concentration campbarrack.Synagoguethe building where a Jewish assembly orcongregation meets for religious worship andinstruction Chapter 3
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