Night Vocab #1
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- Abstraction
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- Anti-Semitic
- relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews
- Beadle
- a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
- Cabbala
- Hebrew or Jewish "bible"
- Deportees
- expelled from home or country by authority
- Emigration
- migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
- Gestapo
- the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods
- Ghetto
- The barbed wire, enclosed area where the Jews were to stay before they were finally deported
- Haggard
- showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
- Initiation
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- Passover
- (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
- Pillage
- the act of stealing valuable things from a place
- Rabbi
- a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher
- Refuge
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- Synagouge
- A Jewish place of worship
- Talmud
- the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition
- Truncheons
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen