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beadle. A parish officer having various subordinate duties. cabbala (Kabbalah). Secret religious knowledge of the Jews. deportation. The act of expelling a person from a country. fascism. A system of government with centralized authority under a dictator, stringent socio-economic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and usually a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

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Night vocabulary

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    1. Night vocabulary

    2. beadle A parish officer having various subordinate duties

    3. cabbala (Kabbalah) Secret religious knowledge of the Jews

    4. deportation The act of expelling a person from a country

    5. fascism A system of government with centralized authority under a dictator, stringent socio-economic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and usually a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism

    6. Final Solution Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe

    7. genocide The systematic, planned destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

    8. ghetto A slum section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there because of social or economic pressure

    9. Gestapo The German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations

    10. Hasid In Judaism, a member of a sect founded in Poland in the 18th century and characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, ritual strictness, prayer, religious zeal, and joy.

    11. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) Head of SS and principle planner of Jews’ total extermination

    12. Kaddish A prayer praising God; the mourner’s Kaddish is said for the dead

    13. Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1978) Auschwitz physician notorious for so-called medical experiments performed on inmates, especially twins and little people

    14. mysticism A spiritual discipline aiming at direct union or communion with ultimate reality or God through deep meditation

    15. Passover The eight-day celebration of the exodus of Jewish people from slavery in Egypt

    16. rabbi An ordained spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation

    17. Rosh Hashanah Marks the new year of the Jewish calendar

    18. SS Officer SS stands for Schutzstaffel Originally set up as Hitler’s personal bodyguard Later became the core of the Nazi terror apparatus and ran the concentration camps

    19. synagogue A Jewish house of worship and study

    20. Talmud Collection of teachings of early rabbis from the 5th and 6th centuries

    21. Zionism Political movement advocating the establishment of a Jewish state

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