Religion 214: The Jews In America

Review Sheet

Terms, Names and Ideas

halakhah
Sephardi Period
Haym Solomon
Mordecai Manuel Noah
Touro Synagogue
German Period
yekke
General Orders No. 11 (1862)
Isaac Meyer Wise
Eastern Immigration Period
Torah
shul
mechitzah
tallis
yarmulke
minyan
Mikveh
mohel
kehillah
kosher
Yiddish
rabbi / cantor
Lower East Side
Anti-Defamation League
Hadassah
Forverts
Bintel Brief
landsmanschaften
dumbbell tenement
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Sendor Jarmulowsky
Jacob Schiff
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Brandeis
Solomon Schechter
Modern Period
Henry Ford
Father Coughlin
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress
United Jewish Communities
Six Day War
Philip Roth
Reform
"the trefa banquet"
The Pittsburgh Platform
The Columbus Platform
Hebrew Union College
"Classical Reform"
Conservative
"tradition and change"
Jewish Theological Seminary
Orthodox
Yeshiva University - (RIETS: Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological School)
Hasid
"modern Orthodox", vs. "ultra-Orthodox"
Reconstructionist
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan

Ideas

American Jewish demography
What is the difference between Sephardi and Ashkenazi?
Jewish Labor movement
antisemitism
Assimilation strategies
Jewish philanthropy -- Federation structure
Jewish socialization patterns
Jewish education
Political issues, domestic and international
yiddishkeit

Sample essay: Provide a general demographic overview of contemporary American Judaism. Describe the traditional demographic features of the Jews, as well as the special demographic factors needed for describing an American ethnic/religious group.