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Night By Elie Wiesel

Night By Elie Wiesel. Vocabulary – Chapter One Hasidic - A branch of Orthodox (traditional) Judaism that maintains a lifestyle separate from the non-Jewish world. (2) Synagogue: a Jewish house of worship. (3) Waif- A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child. .

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Night By Elie Wiesel

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  1. Night By Elie Wiesel Vocabulary – Chapter One • Hasidic - A branch of Orthodox (traditional) Judaism that maintains a lifestyle separate from the non-Jewish world. (2) Synagogue: a Jewish house of worship. (3) Waif- A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.

  2. Chapter One Vocabulary - Night • Cabbala - the Jewish mystical tradition • Mystical - not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; supernatural

  3. Night – Chapter One Vocabulary • Talmud -The entire body of Jewish teachings; the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. 7. Torah - The most significant collection of Jewish oral tradition

  4. Chapter One Vocabulary - Night 8. Maimonides - Spanish-born Jewish philosopher and physician who organized the Talmud • Gestapo – the Nazi police 10. Lorry - truck

  5. Chapter one Vocabulary - Night • Zionism - A Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the support and development of the state of Israel. 12. Fascism – a dictatorship

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