Night By Elie Wiesel

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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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Chapter One Vocabulary - Night

• Cabbala - the Jewish mystical tradition
• Mystical - not apparent to the senses nor obvious
  to the intelligence beyond ordinary
  understanding supernatural

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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

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• 8. Maimonides - Spanish-born Jewish philosopher
  and physician who organized the Talmud
• Gestapo the Nazi police
• 10. Lorry - truck

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• 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