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!