Vocab SS

 

A school for Jewish boys

• Heder

• Yiddish

• Shetl

• Cossacks

Saturday: A day or rest and prayer for the Jewish Religion

• pogrom

• passover

• Sabbath/Shabbos

• Yiddish

A Russian Soldier who attack little Jewish boys for sport

• pogrom

• shetl

• yiddish

• Cossacks

A systematic attack on a group of people meant to wipe them out and make their life difficult

• pogrom

• shetl

• cossacks

• yiddish

A small Jewish town or villiage

• Shetl

• yiddish

• heder

• cossacks

The Jewish language that Fivel's family speaks

• shabbos

• yiddish

• gabo

• yeddiesh

A Jewish Holiday, which occurs in the spring, commemorating when the Jewish slaves fled Egypt

• Passover/Pesach

• Matzoh

• pogrom

• yiddish

Unleavened bread (like a dry cracker) that is eaten during the Eight days of Passover*

• shetl

• heder

• Matzoh

• Yiddish

 

Someone who moves from one region to another region (can be within the same country)

• Migrant

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Yiddish

Someone who moves into a new country

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Migrant

• Yiddish