Recent Origins
Where Ashkenazic Jews are most immediately from
Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Hungary
The thing that made Abraham different
Believed in one G-d
Vacation area once home to a thriving Jewish community
The Caribbean
King and Queen who implemented the Inquisition
Ferdinand and Isabella
How Jews got to Spain to begin with
After the Roman Empire destroyed the Temple
Where Sefardic Jews are most immediately from
Spain or Portugal
Century Jews started to live in Spain
1st Century
Reason Caribbean Jews survived
They accepted converts to Judaism and absorbed the culture
Choices for Jews during the Inquisition
Death, Expulsion, Conversion
Roman name for the Judea (Land of Israel)
Palestine
Where all Jews are originally from
Land of Israel
Name of the rebellion against the Romans that started in 63 CE
Great Jewish Revolt
Reason Jews wound up in the Caribbean
Spanish Inquisition
When accused of secretly practicing Judaism, who came after you
Inquisition authorities
Name of the later rebellion against Rome, after the Great Revolt
Bar Kochba
Where Mizrachi Jews are from
Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt
How the Great Jewish Revolt ended
Temple destroyed in 73 CE
Largest Jewish community outside Israel
New York City
How Jews were seen even after coverting
As outsiders
Empire where the center of Jewish scholarship was until Iraq took over
Babylonian
One other area where Jews are from that has not been mentioned
Ethiopia
Number of years Jews lived in Germany before the Holocaust
2000
Jewish ethnicity of the current contestant
Ashkenazic, Sfardic, or Mizrachi
Century during which many Sefardic Jews went to the Land of Israel after the Expulsion from Spain
15th
Empire who did not let Jews back into Jerusalem during the 1800s
Ottoman Empire