Night German vocab.
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mandamoo312 on March 5, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 achtung | German for attention |
| Aden | former middle eastern British colony, now part of Yemen |
| Aryan | pure, superior Germanic race |
| Babylon captivity | Babylonians destroyed the first temple in Jerusalem in 86 B.C.E. and exiled the Jews to Babylonia |
| boche | WWI derogatory French slang for a German, usually a soldier |
| Cabbala | Jewish mysticism, including numerology |
| Cavalry | literally, the place near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; here, used metaphorically to mean an experience of intense agony or grief |
| Death's head | skull insignia for SS officers working in concentration camps |
| fascism | a system of gov. with centralized authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship and usually a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism |
| Gestapo | German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state |
| Guerrillas | small groups of soldiers, often volunteers, who make surprise attacks and raids behind enemy lines |
| gypsy | Pejorative term for Roma or Romany, an ethnic group with roots in India which suffered large losses in the Holocaust |
| Hasidism | movement of Orthodox Judaism with strong mystical and emotional elements |
| Heinrich Himmler | head of SS and principal planner of Jews' total elimination |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Admiral Miklos Horthy | regent of Hungary who was forced by the Nazis to relinquish power to the Nylias Hungarian Fascist party after Nazi invasion |
| Kabbalah | Jewish mysticism related to interpretation of Scripture |
| Kaddish | a prayer in Aramaic praising God; the mourner's Kaddish is said for the dead |
| kapos | concentration camp prisoners who were given special priveleges in return for supervising other prisoners or work crews; often common criminals who were notorious for their brutality toward fellow inmates |
| Lazarus | a man described in the Books of John and Luke as having been raised from the dead by Jesus |
| los | German for "go on!" |
| Maimonides | Jewish rabbi, physician and philosopher |
| Musulman | German for Muslim |
| Nyilas party | Hungarion for Arrow Cross, a fascist anti-semitic party which assumed power in late 1944 and assisted the SS in deportations of Jews |
| phylacteries | In Hebrew, tefellin; Greek word for two black leather cubes, worn during daily morning prayer which contain verses from the Torah |
| Red Army | the regular army of the former Soviet Union |
| Rosh Hashana | Jewish New Year |
| Spanish Inquisition | brutal campaign by Roman Catholic church to punish nonbelievers including Jews and Muslims |
| Talmud | the most important compilation of Jewish oral tradition |
| Yom Kippur | Day of Atonment; holiest day of Jewish year when Jews fast and pray for forgiveness of their sins |
| Zionism | political movement advocating the establishment of a Jewish state |
| Zohar | from the Hebrew meaning light of splendor; one of the major works of the Cabbala |
| modernism | a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms |
| existentialism | a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will; emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable |
| magical realism | an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere in order to access a deeper understanding of reality |
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