| A | B |
|---|
| 500ce. to reformation | Catholic Church dominant |
| diaspora | 70ce. Jews dispersed throughout Roman empire |
| one reason for Christian Church propaganda | distinguish self from Jews |
| predated Germans | ghettos |
| Torah | Old Testament |
| usury | lending money, usually at unreasonable interest rates |
| blood libel | story told about Jewish people killing Christian children in order to use blood for ritual purposes |
| Enlightenment era (age of reason) | science propelled anti-Semitism from religion to race & inspired nationalism during this time |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice or discrimination against Jews |
| Judaism | 1st monotheistic religion |
| cultural/spiritual resistance | acts of opposition usually related to cultural traditions & preservation of human dignity |
| genocide | destruction of an ethnic, religious, or national group of people to extent that they no longer exist as a defined unit |
| Holocaust | "Sacrifice by fire" |
| perpetrator | someone who does something criminally or morally wrong |
| Shoah | Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe" |
