In The Beginning
Goldiner Medina
Bageled!
Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish
Pharoah's Phun Phacts
100
Beginning with Moses Mendelson, this is the Hebrew term for the time period when Jews in Europe began to leave the ghettos, go to universities, become secularized, and mix more with non-Jews.
What is the Haskalah?
100
Most of the Jews fleeing from Czarist Russia in the 1880s moved to this city in the United States.
What is New York City?
100
Besides being Jewish, she is a singer-songwriter, actress, director, author and film producer. She has won 2 Oscars, 8 Grammys, 5 Emmy's, a Tony and a Golden Globe, and as th best-selling female artist of all time, she has sold 145 million records world wide. "Funny Girl" and "Yentl" are among the many films she has starred in.
Who is Barbara Streisand?
100
This Jewish composer wrote the song "Popular" from the Broadway musical "Wicked".
Who is Stephen Shwartz?
100
A long time before Broadway theatre, this Jewish song was sung by Moses and all of the Children of Israel.
What is The Song of the Sea (Shirat Hayam)?
200
In the 1880s, pogroms began to drive Jews out of this territory of Czarist Russia - the only part of Russia where Jews were allowed to live at the time.
What is the Pale of the Settlement?
200
Before Broadway opened it's first theatre hall, this avenue was the place in New York was where you went to see the best shows in town, and it was all in Yiddish.
What is 2nd Avenue?
200
This Jewish actress was born in Israel, attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and starred in Star Wars Episode I, II and III, V for Vendetta, Black Swan and Thor.
Who is Natalie Portman?
200
This famous Jewish composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue in 1926.
Who is George Gershwin?
200
Questions, sons and wine share this common theme at the seder table.
What is 4?
300
Starting his Romanian Yiddish Theatre troupe in 1876, this man wrote over 40 Yiddish plays and is considered the father of Yiddish theatre.
Who is Avraham Goldfaden?
300
This Jewish composer, who's close friends called him "Israel", tried to get a job writing music for Yiddish theatre, but was turned away because his music sounded too "American". One of his famous orchestral pieces, "Rhapsody in Blue", begins with a clarinet solo that sounds like it belongs in a klezmer band.
Who is George Gershwin?
300
Other than Dianna Agron who played the role of Quinn, this was the other Jewish female lead in the hit TV series, Glee. On broadway, she performed in Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables and Spring Awakening. The last name she uses is actually her middle name, while her REAL last name is Sarfati which is a common sephardic name.
Who is Lea Michele?
300
This famous Jewish composer wrote the song "A Little Priest" from the Broadway musical Sweeny Todd.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
300
Never to be seen again, these are the plagues that number 10!
What are blood, frogs, vermin, beasts, cattle disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, slaying of the first born.
400
Great controversy resulted when Jewish singers of this profession began to take part the first Yiddish theatre troupe in Romania.
What are cantors?
400
An Actor, director and investor, this pioneer of Yiddish theatre was responsible for opening the first Yiddish theatre in New York, as well as spreading Yiddish theatre to Washington DC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston and Baltimore.
Who is Boris Thomashevsky?
400
Oddball Jewish actor Jack Black is known for many movies including Tenacious D, School of Rock, Gulliver's Travels, and for playing the voice of a crime fighting bear in this famous movie trilogy.
What is Kung Fu Panda?
400
This famous Jewish composer wrote "I Feel Pretty" from the Broadway musical West Side Story.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
400
You can buy one for a couple of zuzim.
What is one little goat?
500
The assassination of this person in 1881 led to pogroms, a ban on Yiddish theatre, and a massive wave of Jewish immigration into the United States.
Who is Czar Alexander II?
500
This Jewish stage performer who originally went by the name Asa Yoelson, in his time was considered the greatest entertainer in America. Often remembered for his performances in "black-face", Jews prefer to remember him for his starring role in "The Jazz Singer" (1927), a musical film about the son of a cantor.
Who is Al Jolson?
500
Actor and English-born Jew, Jason Isaacs, appeared as this character in all of the Harry Potter movies.
Who is Lucius Malfoy?
500
This Jewish composer wrote "There ain't nothing like a dame" from the Broadway musical South Pacific
Who is Richard Rogers?
500
Dr. Susannah Heschel, daughter of the famous Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was giving a lecture in Miami about the ordination of female rabbis, to which a man at the back of the room shouted "a woman belongs on a bimah like a ____ belongs on a seder plate!". Today some conservative families include this item on their seder plates in honour of female rabbis.
What is an orange?
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