ASHKENAZ
CRUSADES & CRUSADERS
TOUGH TIMES
100

THE MAIN JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ASHKENAZ LAY ALONG THIS RIVER

WHAT IS THE RHINE?

100

MEDIEVAL CRUSADER FORTRESSES SURVIVE IN ISRAEL TO THIS DAY AT CASTEL (NEAR JERUSALEM) AND THIS CITY ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST

WHAT IS AKKO?

100

A GATED MEDIEVAL STREET IN WHICH JEWS WERE REQUIRED TO LIVE EVENTUALLY CAME TO BE CALLED THIS, ITALIAN FOR "FOUNDRY"

WHAT IS GHETTO?

200

THE OLDEST SURVIVING MIKVAH NORTH OF THE ALPS CAN BE FOUND IN THIS GERMAN CITY

WHAT IS SPEYER?

200

EUROPEAN CHRISTIANS HAD THIS "S"OMEWHAT "S"TRANGE NAME FOR ARABS

WHAT ARE SARACENS?

200

THIS COUNTRY WAS THE FIRST TO EXPEL ITS JEWS, IN 1290

WHAT IS ENGLAND?

300

THE THREE MAJOR GERMAN COMMUNITIES IN ASHKENAZ (SPEYER, WORMS, AND MAINZ) WERE KNOWN BY THIS ACRONYM

WHAT IS SHU"M

(or Kehillot SHu"M)

300

ONE OF THE CRUSADERS MOST NOTORIOUS FOR INCITING ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE WAS A PRIEST KNOWN AS PETER THE THIS

WHAT IS THE HERMIT?

300

THE TALMUD WAS PUT ON TRIAL IN THIS EUROPEAN CAPITAL IN 1240

WHAT IS PARIS?

400

RABBI AMNON OF MAINZ WROTE THIS CENTRAL PART OF THE LITURGY OF THE YAMIM NORAIM

WHAT IS UNETANEH TOKEF?

400

THE CRUSADER KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE LAST YEAR OF THIS CENTURY

WHAT IS THE 11TH?

400

AS THE MIDDLE AGES WENT ON, FRANCE AND GERMANY SAW MANY OF THEIR JEWS MOVE EASTWARD TO AUSTRIA AND THIS SLIGHTLY MORE HOSPITABLE COUNTRY

WHAT IS POLAND?

500

THE "M"OST EXTENSIVE VIOLENCE DURING THE CRUSADES TOOK PLACE IN THIS "M"AJOR JEWISH CITY

WHAT IS MAINZ?

500

THE POPE WHO DECLARED THE FIRST CRUSADE HAD THIS VERY HIP NAME

WHAT IS URBAN II?

500

THE BLACK PLAGUE, WHICH OPPORTUNISTIC ANTISEMITES USED AS A CHANCE TO SCAPEGOAT JEWS, OCCURRED IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS CENTURY

WHAT IS THE 14TH?