Week 1 - Founding
The year that Jews arrived in North America.
What is 1654?
Most Jews during the Revolution lived in this city.
What is New York City?
During the 1800s, Jews would mainly occupy these jobs.
What are merchants and shopkeepers?
Most Jews would live and fight for this side of the Civil War.
What is the North?
I went to this high school.
What is Eastern Regional?
Jews were expelled from these two countries in 1492.
What is Spain and Portugal?
The American Revolution would start this year.
What is 1776?
In 1800 this South Carolina City would contain the largest concentration of Jews in the United States.
What is Charleston?
The Civil War would break out this year.
What is 1861?
This Jewish holiday starts December 4th and involves lighting a series of candles for 8 nights.
What is Hannukah?
Early Jewish settlers in America were mainly this culture of Jew.
What is Sephardic?
This nation would step in to assist America in the American Revolution, helping the US win its freedom but leading the country to bankruptcy.
What is France?
Jewish immigrants from Germany would be considered this culture of Jews.
What is Ashkenazi?
These languages were common amongst Jewish Immigrants of the 1800s (name 2).
What is German, Yiddish, Hebrew, or Spanish?
This is my favorite Hockey team.
What is the Boston Bruins?
The first 23 Jews in America would flee this South American country in fear of the Portuguese Inquisition.
What is Brazil?
The first Jew to die during the Revolution died in South Carolina, and was named Francis Salvador. He was called the "Paul Revere of the South", and was killed this year.
What is 1776?
As German enlightenment Jews began to immigrate to the United States, they began to form this sect of Judaism.
What is Reformed?
The Civil War would end this year.
What is 1865?
The croissant traces its history back to this country.
What is Austria?
What is the Touro Synagogue?
This Jew would be a major financier for the Revolution, but would die poor after most of his contributions were never repaid?
Who is Haym Solomon?
As the Civil War approached, most Jews would side with the North. However, this Jew would go on to serve as Secretary of State for the Confederacy.
Who is Judah P. Benjamin?
This Seminary would be founded in 1875 by Isaac Meyer Hayes as a center for Reformed Judaism.
What is Hebrew Union College?
What is cookie?