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beadle. A parish officer having various subordinate duties. cabbala (Kabbalah). Secret religious knowledge of the Jews. deportation. The act of expelling a person from a country. fascism. A system of government with centralized authority under a dictator, stringent socio-economic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and usually a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
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1. Night vocabulary
2. beadle A parish officer having various subordinate duties
3. cabbala (Kabbalah) Secret religious knowledge of the Jews
4. deportation The act of expelling a person from a country
5. fascism A system of government with centralized authority under a dictator, stringent socio-economic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and usually a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
6. Final Solution Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe
7. genocide The systematic, planned destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
8. ghetto A slum section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there because of social or economic pressure
9. Gestapo The German�state secret police during the�Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious�for its brutal methods and operations
10. Hasid In Judaism, a member of a sect founded in Poland in the 18th century and characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, ritual strictness, prayer, religious zeal, and joy.
11. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) Head of SS and principle planner of Jews� total extermination
12. Kaddish A prayer praising God; the mourner�s Kaddish is said for the dead
13. Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1978) Auschwitz physician notorious for so-called medical experiments performed on inmates, especially twins and little people
14. mysticism A spiritual discipline aiming at direct union or communion with ultimate reality or God through deep meditation
15. Passover The eight-day celebration of the exodus of Jewish people from slavery in Egypt
16. rabbi An ordained spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation
17. Rosh Hashanah Marks the new year of the Jewish calendar
18. SS Officer SS stands for Schutzstaffel
Originally set up as Hitler�s personal bodyguard
Later became the core of the Nazi terror apparatus and ran the concentration camps
19. synagogue A Jewish house of worship and study
20. Talmud Collection of teachings of early rabbis from the 5th and 6th centuries
21. Zionism Political movement advocating the establishment of a Jewish state