WorksheetsHomeland to Diaspora- How much have you "sponged" up?
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What does the term diaspora mean? Choose best option.
A scattering of anything alive or dead
The dispersion of Jews beyond Israel
The dispersion of Jews or any people who have spread out from their original homeland
A holiday in paradise
When was the first Jewish diaspora?
c. 586 BCE
c. 70 CE
c. 1000 BCE
c. 2000 CE
Where did the first diaspora community live and why?
Persia because Cyrus captured them as prisoners!
Babylon because Nevuchadnezzar captured them as prisoners and took them to the rivers of Bavel where they wept! And eventually built a new life there.
Rome because the Romans conquered and captured them as prisoners!
Ezra and Nechemia because they chose to leave their homeland.
Name the three different origins of Jewish Diaspora communities:
Milchig, Fleishig and Pareve
Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrachi
Mizrachi, Ashkenazi and Australian
New York, Australia and South Africa
When was the second huge exile?
586 BCE
169 BCE
70 CE
200 CE
Who caused the second major exile?
Babylonians
Persians
Greeks
Romans
What is the Hebrew word for exile?
Galut
Shalom
Bamba
Mashiach
What is canonisation?
Army weapons
A group of siddurim
A list of rules for Jews to keep anywhere
The compilation of the Tanach- the sacred core text of Jewish life
Who were the geonim?
All Rabbis
The Great Rabbis- Geniuses who led the Jewish community in Bavel spiritually and wrote Responsa
The Great political leaders who led the Jews in Bavel
The programme to teach Rabbis their qualification
Roshei Galuta are...
Exilarchs- Political Jewish leaders from Bavel
Exilarchs- Spiritual Jewish leaders from Bavel
Exilarchs- Political Jewish leaders from Roman exile
Exilarchs- Spiritual Jewish leaders from Roman exile
Dina D'Malchuta Dina are:
siddurim
questions and answers
books which make up the Tanach
Jewish law introduced the law: the law of the land is the law
Smicha is....
Happiness despite the crisis of leaving one's homeland
A really good song Jews sang to feel better
A programme for people to become authorised Rabbis Jews could depend on anywhere-
Great Rabbis writing answers to people living in the time
Apocrypha means...
The exile of Jews from Israel
A really scary character in a Greek myth
The Jewish books that didn't make the final cut in the Tanach
A Greek word for diaspora
What does survival mean?
giving up hope and tantrumming in despair
the state of only humans staying alive
the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances.
always being a winner
Is the diaspora a good or bad thing?
Good
Bad
Neither
It depends on your perspective.
Where do Sephardim originally come from?
Spain, Egypt, Poland and Turkey
Spain, Egypt and Morrocco
Spain, Iran and Iraq
Poland, Germany and France
By what rivers did the Jews of Bavel/ Babylon famously weep?
Yarra and Mitchell
Kinneret and Jordan
Euphrates and Tigres
The Nile
The Oriental Diaspora refers to Jews from....
Babylon, Spain and Persia
Babylon, Persia, Iran and Iraq
Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
Spain, Egypt and Morrocco
