University at Albany
Judaic Studies Department
AJST/AHIS/AREL 254
Jews in the Modern World
Dr. Arthur Brenner April 28, 2011
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
The final exam will be held on Thursday, May 5 from 3:30-5:30 PM in HU-020 (our regular classroom).
To prepare to answer these questions, consult assigned readings, Powerpoint
presentations, and class notes, and be sure to answer all parts of each question.
A. Identifications: Answer 5, each worth 10 points (50% of the grade). The exam will include up to 10 out of the
15 terms listed here (so: you study 15, and the exam will include a choice of 5 out of 8-10 terms). Answers should
be about one paragraph long (typically, 4-8 sentences) and should cover who, what, where, when and why, as well
as include a few words about its importance to Jewish history in the modern and contemporary eras and the themes
of the course (what does this term “show” us that is relevant to this course?).
Here’s a sample: “Lebensraum”: Lebensraum means living space. It was a term used by Hitler in Mein
Kampf in 1925 to describe his intention to conquer vast territory to Germany’s east (in Poland and Russia) so that
ethnic Germans, or Aryans, could resettle there and have enough space to provide land and food for a rapidly
growing Aryan race. To accomplish this, Hitler had to go to war against the Soviet Union in 1941, and was unable to
implement it because he lost the war. But he still managed to kill millions of Jews, Poles and Russians in Eastern
Europe in his drive to achieve the Aryan “manifest destiny.”
1. Kishinev Pogrom 2. Haganah 3. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
4. Ahad Ha’am (Asher Ginsburg) 5. Leon Pinsker 6. Henry Ford
7. Balfour Declaration 8. Yevsektsia 9. Aliyah
10. Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski 11. Nuremberg Laws 12. May Laws
13. 14. 15.
