Night Vocab/Questions

A building used for worship and teaching

• Synagogue
• Talmud
• Shavuot
• House

an official order or proclamation

• expulsion
• conflagration
• edict
• plaintive

a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs

• Gestapo
• Kabbalah
• Kapo
• Partisans

a) to convert assets into cash b)to put an end to, abolish c) to put to death

• annihilate 
• emigrate
• elude
• liquidate

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

What does rabbi mean?The rabbi spoke to our congregation about God.

• The spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation
• Extreme poverty; poor conditions
•  A Jewish house of worship.
• Destroy completely; exterminate

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Nazi secret police

• facist
• gestapo
• beadle
• convoy

What point of view is being used to tell this story?

• 1st Person
• 2nd Person
• 3rd Person Objective
• 3rd Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Why didn’t the people believe Moishe's story?

• It was such a crazy story
• Moishe the Beadle was not a popular figure in Sighet.
• Moishe was known to be somewhat delusional
• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What story did Moishe tell about his time away from Sighet?

• "Those German folks sure are nice!"
• He witnessed Jews digging their own graves and being shot by the Germans
• He saw that German people just hated living near Jewish people
• He witnessed battles being fought between the Germans and the Russians

Played his violin for the prisoners until he died.

• Franek
• Idek
• Juliek
• Yossi

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3