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