Ashkenaz Jews largely governed themselves organizing independent boards for the kehillah with this name.
What is the kahal?
100
Hellenism integrates what into the common culture?
What is Greek culture?
100
These are the first three kings of Israel.
Who are Saul, David and Solomon?
100
Adaptations were neccesary in order for this to happen and for us to be here today.
What is in order for Judaism to survive?
100
These places segregated Jews from their neighbors.
What are ghettos?
200
The Jewish community leaders for the Jews of Ashkenaz, the ones who organized the kahal, were known as this.
Who are the parnasim?
200
Circa 225 BCE, the name of this place is changed to its Roman name.
What is Judah?
200
Under this King, Israel became united, but was split forcing many Jews into this place.
Who is King David and the diaspora?
200
One result of an adaptation to strengthen Jewish life, was the Jews of Babylonia developing this book.
What is the Babylonian Talmud?
200
In this country, Jews worked side-by-side with their Muslim and Christian neighbors as an example of an integrated society.
What is Spain?
300
Establishing an academy in Mainz and issuing a series of rulings, including his most famous one banning polygamy, he helped 'light' the diaspora.
Who is Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah (or Rabbenu Gershom Me'or Hagolah)?
300
The Temple is purified and rededicated in this year, after a successful revolt led by Judah.
What is 164 BCE?
300
Best known for his massive construtcion projects, this King's most famous building is the Holy Temple.
Who is King Solomon?
300
All Jews learned to be flexible and adaptable after this event in the 1400s.
What is the Sephardic community's expulsion from Spain?
300
This movement paved the way for Jews to become integrated into modern society by making it possible for Jews to live and work with their non-Jewish neighbors.
What is the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment?
400
These followers of Rashi continued his work after his death.
Who are the Tosafists?
400
This is the translation of the Torah into Greek.
What is the Septuagint?
400
The first Jews to return to Jerusalem and start building arrived and completed the Second Temple in this year.
What is 516 BCE?
400
The Jews responded to Hellenism with these diverse strategies.
What are resistance to Hellenism, complete assimilation, and varying levels of adaptation to Greek culture?
400
The Babylonian Talmud created a dynamic model for this.
What is living as a minority in a non-Jewish environment?
500
These individuals were Torah and Talmud scholars and experts on kashrut, at least one of whom was said to write a response in Rashi's name when he was sick.
Who are Rashi's daughters: Yocheved, Miriam and Rachel?
500
Hellenic Jews adapted to their surroundings with these accomodations.
What are adopting Greek language and style of dress, giving their children Greek names and sending them to Greek school?
500
This scribe and religious leader joined forces with Nehemiah, the highest ranking Jew in the Persian court, to start rebuilding Jerusalem.
Who is Ezra?
500
Early Israelites showed their ability to adapt by living under these types of rule.
What are: a group of tribes; a unified, self-governed people; exiles from their homeland; and subjects in their homeland to foreign rulers.
500
These groups, perhaps the most in the history we studied, were trying to strike a balance between integration and isolation.