Second Midterm Study-Guide

 

General Instructions:

 

  1. When answering long essay questions, remember to back up general assertions with specific examples.
  2. When composing short answers remember to explain the importance of the excerpt in the general context of Jewish history.
  3. When answering the ID questions remember to include dating and the importance of the concept in review.
  4. It is a good idea to answer the question with the most point value first. If you donŐt have enough to say, leave some blank pages to fill in later as things occur to you. Remember: writing longer and more detailed answers for questions with limited point value does not earn more points than were assigned in the first place!
  5. It often helps to outline your essay answers briefly. It helps you organize your thoughts and can help the grader to know what you meant to say if you donŐt have time to finish.

 

 

General Concepts:

 

Consider the circumstances and the implications of the Enlightenment on the changing definitions of anti-Semitism. How and why did the Jews cease to be a Ôminority by choice.Ő What was the main dividing factor between Jews and non-Jews before the Enlightenment? What was it by the 19th century?

 

Consider the Emancipation from the position of both the Jews and the Christian West. Who supported it and why? Who opposed it and why?

 

Consider the different environmental factors and their role in the development of Haskala in the Eastern and Western Europe.

 

What was the role of Hasidism in the development of Eastern European Jewry? Discuss it in the context of the traditional Jewish community and the advent of modernity.

 

 

Significant Personalities, Locations, Themes.

 

Reform Judaism

Conservative Judaism

Hasidism

Count de Clermont-Tonnere

Consistoire

1787 Metz Essay Contest

Israel Baal Shem Tov

Zaddik

Orthodoxy

Assembly of Notables

Grand Sanhedrin

Nicholas I

Alexander II

Berr Isaac Berr

Zacharias Frankel

Declaration of Rights of Man

FJA Hell

Napoleon Bonaparte

Historical Positivism

Edict of Emancipation, Sept 3, 1791

Gaon of Vilna

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Abbe Gregoire

Lachrymose interpretation of Jewish history