Rituals
A day on which many American employers required their employees to work
What is Shabbat (and Jewish holidays)?
How most Jewish immigrants traveled to America
What is "by ship"?
US President who promised Jews to give, "To bigotry no sanction."
Who is George Washington?
Something many Jewish immigrants in America studied in night school.
What is English?
Brand of riveted blue pants, first manufactured by a Jewish businessman in California for gold miners
What are Levi's Jeans?
The most widely celebrated major Jewish holiday in America
What is Passover?
Leader of Imperial Russia who permitted or allowed attacks on Jews.
Who is Tsar Alexander III and/ or Nicholas II? (Several other Tsars too.)
US President who stopped the expulsion of Jews from the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Common job for a new Ashkenazi immigrant to America in the late 1800s
What is a peddler?
1911 tragedy that pushed many Jews to call for workplace reforms
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire?
Origin of most early American rabbis
What is Europe (especially Germany)?
An attack against a Jewish community by a wild mob of people.
What is a pogrom?
First Jewish Supreme Court Justice
Who is Louis Brandeis?
Jewish restaurant style popularized by Ashkenazi Jews in America
What is a delicatessen?
Poet who wrote The New Colossus, engraved on The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
Who is Emma Lazarus?
Oldest synagogue in America
What is Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island?
Immigration station in New York, 1892-1954
What is Ellis Island?
First major Jewish candidate for Vice President
Opposite of Treifa
What is kosher?
Architect of American Conservative Judaism and President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS)
Who is Solomon Schechter?
Oldest synagogue in Maryland
What is Lloyd Street Synagogue (Baltimore Hebrew Congregation) of Baltimore?
Legal practice of limiting who can come to live in a country.
What is an immigration quota?
Jewish Secretary of State of the Confederacy
Who is Judah P. Benjamin?
Yiddish newspaper based in New York, featuring the advice column, The Bintel Brief.
What is The Forward פֿאָרווערטס?
A Jewish brotherhood established in 1841 that still advocates for Jewish rights and interests.
What is B'nai B'rith?