The History of Jewish Communities in the Middle East
  • 1. Which city was a major center of Jewish learning in the early centuries of the Common Era?
A) Cairo
B) Jerusalem
C) Rome
D) Babylon
  • 2. What year marks the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?
A) 586 BCE
B) 70 CE
C) 63 BCE
D) 135 CE
  • 3. What term describes the dispersion of Jews outside of Israel?
A) Diaspora
B) Ghetto
C) Zionism
D) Aliyah
  • 4. What term is used to describe the anti-Jewish violence in Europe that began in the late 19th century?
A) Ghettos
B) Crusades
C) Intifadas
D) Pogroms
  • 5. Which Middle Eastern city was the first to have a large-scale Jewish population starting in the Middle Ages?
A) Istanbul
B) Jerusalem
C) Cairo
D) Algiers
  • 6. What was the purpose of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
A) End Jewish migration to Europe
B) Support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
C) Establish a Jewish government in Egypt
D) Create a Jewish army
  • 7. Which Middle Eastern country has one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities?
A) Egypt
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Syria
  • 8. Which Jewish movement began in the late 19th century aiming to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine?
A) Zionism
B) Socialism
C) Reform Judaism
D) Hasidism
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