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Hanukkah
100
This document officially separated the British Colonies in North America from their mother country of Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This French emperor and military leader rose to power during the French Revolution.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
This country used its military power to spread emancipation for the Jews of Europe.
What is France?
100
He was a famous Jewish patriot who was arrested by the British for spying, but later became a translator for the British.
Who is Haym Solomon?
100
This group of Jewish freedom fighters are the heroes of the Hanukkah story.
Who are the Maccabees?
200
This amendment to the US constitution gave Jews, along with everyone else, the right to freedom of religion.
What is the First Amendment?
200
This year marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is 1789?
200
These countries were the last to give Jews legal equality.
What are Russia and Poland?
200
This was Napoleon Bonaparte's official title.
What is the Emperor of France?
200
This is the hebrew name for the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 nights.
What is nes hashemen?
300
This policy separates legal/political and religious authority in a country.
What is the separation of Church and State.
300
This phrase used by the National Assembly in France shows a clear link between the French and American revolutions.
What is "All men are born and remain free, and are equal in rights."?
300
These people were afraid that Emancipation would cause Jews to abandon religion
Who are rabbis?
300
This British Jewish women was descended from crypto-Jews. She fought for Jewish women's right to Jewish education.
Who was Grace Aguilar?
300
This was the nation that the Maccabees fought in the story of Hanukkah.
What is the Seleucid Empire (from modern day Greece)?
400
This is approximately the number of Jews who fought for America during the American Revolution.
What is 100?
400
In this year France granted Jews full citizenship and gave them legal equality.
What is 1791?
400
This is the name that was given to the area of certain cities that Jews lived in exclusively.
What is a ghetto?
400
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This is the name for the tactics used by the Maccabees in the Hanukkah story.
What is guerrilla tactics?
500
This treaty signed in 1783 ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
This is the meaning of the phrase "To the Jews as a nation, nothing; to the Jews as individuals; everything."
What is the Jews had to accept the authority of French secular courts instead of their longstanding separate legal system?
500
These places were specifically mentioned by the book as places where anti-semetic laws were revived after they were recaptured from France.
What are Frankfurt, Bavaria, and Baden?
500
This famous American patriot wrote the following in a letter to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island: "May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants."
Who is George Washington?
500
Hanukkah is celebrated in this Jewish month.
What is Kislev?