Basic Yiddish
Shtetl Work
Big Ideas
Oh Russia my Russia!
Mystery
100
The proper response to Shalom Alachem
Alechem Shalom
100
The opening song to Fiddler on the roof lists out the type of work done in the Shtetle, what is the name of this song?
100
What is the translation of "shtetl"
Little town or little village
100
These Jews Made up the Majority of Russian Jewry, Their name is derived from the region in Northern Germany where they settled in the Middle ages.
Ashkenazi
100
What is Max's Favorite Flavor of Ice cream?
Vanilla
200
Tranlaste to English: "Du bist a Robot"
You are a Robot 
200
If you were a traditional young man in the Shtetle you wouldn't go to a Russian school you would likely go to one of these to study Talmud and Torah, as Jewish education thrived in the the small Jewish villages.
Yeshiva
200
(True or False) Jewish Merchants of the Russian Empire were welcome in all of Russia and the Russians felt no competition with this outside group!
False! They felt threatened by the new population which pushed Catherine the Great to limit Jewish settlement into one tract of land called the Pale of Settlement in 1791.
200
This is the plot of land in the Russian Empire where Jews could live
Pale of Settlement
200
How does one celebrate Fire Alarm Day?
Dancing around a statue of the inventor of the fire alarm
300
How do you say "I am" in Yiddish
Ich bin
300
Shalom Alechem's Collection of short stories titled Tevye the ____, were the inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof.
The Milkman
300
Name 1 or 2 things that eventually led to the decrease in Shtetl life.
Major Programs between 1881-1914 in this period over 2.5 million jews left Russia for Palestine, the Us or western Europe
Modernity/ enlightenment- Jew sought out new ideas and new ways of life in the US and Palestine
WWII the Holocaust
300
Jews often lived in fear of Russians who would do this, a ritual attack on the Jewish Community.
Pogroms. Some of largest pogroms happening in 1881 after the assassination of the czar was blamed on the Jews or the more infamous Kishniev Pogrom in 1903, which was covered by American newspapers.
300
What is a typical blacksmith lunch?
burnt
400
What is the translation of "Yiddish"
Jewish
400
Jews didn't like it, but being _____ into the Russian Army was a practice for some time.
Conscripted
400
While there were difficult things about shtetl life, people passed time by attending this for entertainment.
Yiddish Theater
400
From the liberal and friendlier to the Jews Alexander II to the much stricter and harsher Alexander III, this was the title given to Russian head of state.
Czar
400
How was Yeshiva son?
It was oy vey!
500
How do you say Boy and Girl in Yiddish
Yingle and Maydle
500
Women in the Shtetl were responsible for many things around the house and in the community. Name 2 of those responsibilities.
Marriage and keeping a home.
Work around the house including tending to animals, farming small plots and cleaning.
Breadwinners-many women ran shops or stalls in the market.
Keeping a Kosher home.
500
Name 1 way innovations from the Shtetl still influence Jewish life today.
Yiddish theater
Yeshiva learning
Hasidic dynasties
Food and culture
Yiddish language
500
There were often internal fights over the future of the Jewish people that began in shtetls and cities in the Russian Empire. Name 1 ideological movement that took root in the shtelts.
Zionism
Bundism
Hasidism
(Other answers accepted)
500
Say the most digits of pi you can!
Mazel tov! 