Immigration
Immigrants from this Asian country primarily settled in California
What is Japan?
Journalism that seeks to expose societal issues and corruption is commonly reffered to as
What is muckraking?
The island of Cuba belonged to this European country before the war that began in 1898
What is Spain?
Before 1880, the majority of Ashkenazi Jews in America came from this country
What is Germany?
The Trefa Banquet served many non-kosher items, but notably did not serve this food
What is pork?
Italian immigrants often lived together in neighborhoods called
What is Little Italy?
Robert Koch was was famous for discovering the cause of this disease
What is Tuberculosis?
General Valeriano Weyler had this nickname that spoke to his brutality
What is "the Butcher"?
Who is Rebecca Gratz?
The neighborhood of NYC that Mr. Ottenstein lives in is called
What is Yorkville/ Carnegie Hill?
Jewish immigrants after 1880 primarily settled in this neighborhood of Manhattan
What is the Lower East Side?
Jacob Riis wrote this book to expose the poor conditions in Tenements
The leading cause of death in the Spanish-American War was not battlefield casualties and instead was this cause
What is disease?
After the Trefa Banquet Sabato Morais and Henry Pereira Mendes established this seminary to train rabbis
What is the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)?
The first synagogue opened by the New Ashkenazi immigrants in 1887 was called this
What is the Eldridge Street Synagogue?
Immigrants to the United States were processed and examined at this place
What is Ellis Island?
Rabbi Henry Cohen tried to convince Jews to move to Texas as part of this movement
What is the Galveston Movement?
The rebellion in the Philippines was led by this man
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
The 3rd oldest Orthodox Ashkenazi congregation (also the one that Mr. Ottenstein davens at) is called what
What is Congregation Orach Chaim?
The first battle of the Spanish-American War was called this
What is the Battle of Manila Bay?
The influx of Jews into Ottoman controlled Palestine beginning in 1880 was called
What is the First Aliyah?
Before Robert Koch discovered the real cause, diseases were thought to be caused by this.
America was given the right to have a naval base in Cuba as part of this law
What is the Platt Amendment?
This leader of Reform Judaism in America authored a new version of the siddur called "Minhag America"
Who is Isaac Mayer Wise?
Rabbi Jacob Joseph's aim as chief rabbi of NYC was to do this
What is standardize the kashrut of meat?