Terms to Study for the Midterm

For 8/29:
autonomous community (kehilla)
Abigail Franks
Plantation Act (1740)
Virginia Act of 1785
“to bigotry no sanction”
Maryland Jew Bill (1826)
voluntarism
democratization of the synagogue

For 8/31:
emancipation
Matrikel
ethnic economy
peddlers
Hebrew Benevolent Society
B’nai B’rith (1846)
retail apprenticeship
mutual benefit insurance

For 9/5:
Reform vs. reform
decorum
family pews
Temple vs. synagogue
Isaac Mayer Wise
David Einhorn
ethical monotheism

For 9/7:
Kaufmann Kohler
Alexander Kohut
Trefah Banquet (1883)
Hebrew Union College
Felix Adler
Society for Ethical Culture (1876)
Pittsburgh Platform (1885)
Historical School
Solomon Schechter
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS)
Orthodox / Conservative / Reform

For 9/12:
acculturation
assimilation
integration
political neutrality
Jewishness as race/religion/nation
gender roles

For 9/14:
Saratoga Affair (1877)
Manhattan Beach Affair (1879)
social discrimination vs. antisemitism
Sunday laws
National Reform Association (NRA)

For 9/19:
Pale of Settlement (1795)
cantonists
Alexander II (“Liberator Czar”)
pogroms
May Laws (1882)
goldene medina
tenement house
garment industry
contracting system
sweatshop
breadwinner ethic
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)
Morris Rosenfeld

For 9/26:
Progressive Era (“Age of Reform”)
Social reformers (ie., Ida Van Etten, Jacob Riis)
muckrakers
patricians (ie., Henry Adams)
nativists (ie., Madison Grant)
Bingham Report (1908)

For 9/28:
treyfene medina
holy/mundane
generational conflict
yichus
individualism, self-fulfillment
A Bintel Brief
mame-loshn
loshn-kodesh
Abraham Cahan
Jewish Daily Forward (1897)
“The Yiddish press as an Americanizing agency”

For 10/3:
United Hebrew Charities
Galveston Experiment
Jacob H. Schiff
Kehillah Experiment (1908-1922)
Louis Marshall
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress

For 10/5:
landsmanshaftn
socialists
anarchists
“We are not Jews; we are Yiddish-speaking socialists”
Federation of American Zionists (1898)
Labor Zionism
Louis Brandeis
“Zionism is Americanism”

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