Hebrew Culture

Beginning in the late 19th century, the term "___" became popular among secular Zionists; in this context the word alluded to the transformation of the Jews into a strong, independent, self-confident secular national group ("the New Jew") sought by classical Zionism.

• Semitic

• Hebrew

• Sephardi

__________ is an ideology among the Jewish people that promotes the reestablishment of a Jewish state centered in the area that corresponds to Canaan, the Holy Land and the region of Palestine.

• Existentialism

• Imperialism

• Zionism

Israeli folk dance is a form of dance that is generally performed to songs in Hebrew, which are very popular in Israel, with dances choreographed to specific songs. Israeli dances include circle, pair and line dances.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Hebrew term is mostly taken as a synonym for the _____________-speaking Israelites belonging to the pre-monarchical period when the culture was still nomadic.

• Semitic

• Persian

• Ottoman

The Jewish ______ or exile is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews from their ancestral homeland which is the Land of Israel and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the world.

• diaspora

• immigration

• colonization

_____ was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region in the Near East during the late second millennium BC. The name "Canaan" appears in the Bible, and corresponds to Phoenicia, Philistia, and Israel.

• Sumerian

• Canaan

• Assyrian

________ was an ancient Semitic-speaking Thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in what we now know as Lebanon.

• Phoenicia

• Roman

• Ottoman

_______ (Greek word meaning "power in the ocean") is a state with primarily maritime kingdoms, a maritime empire considered to have naval supremacy, whether in a military or commercial sense.

• Aristocracy

• Thalassocracy

• Plantocracy

Kugel is a baked pudding or casserole, most commonly made from ____ noodles or ____. It is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish, often served on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

• rice/mushroom

• egg/potato

• flour/zucchini

________ is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week, that is, Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical story that describes the creation of the heavens and the earth in six days.

• Hanukkah

• Shabbat

• Ramadan