| A | B |
| Manya | Ukranian housekeeper |
| Levi Saunders | Danny's younger brother and his ticket out of being the rabbi |
| Israel Ba'al Shem Tov | founder of Hasidism |
| Solomon Maimon | had a great mind like Danny |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Elected 4 times to office |
| Harry S. Truman | dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan |
| Cossacks | group of Greek Orthodox Christians living in Russia and the Ukraine. Staged a rebellion and killed Jews |
| Gematriya | numerical value of Jewish words |
| Graetz | Wrote history of Jewish people from a Jewsih perspective |
| Hirsch | deer in German or Yiddish |
| Mitnagdim | people who opposed teaching of the Besht |
| Pilpul | method of disputation among rabbinical scholars |
| Shul | a synagogue |
| Teodor Herzl | made zionism an international movement |
| zionism | all Jews living in a Jewish state |
| Tereseinstadt | a concentration camp |