Glossary

Voting Rights Act

One of the most important pieces of legislation passed during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was

Jews whose ancestors came from Iberia but migrated to Western Europe, primarily in the Netherlands, France, Germany (mainly Hamburg) and

After the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education ruled racially segregated schooling to be unconstitutional in 1954, White

The Capital of Curaçao, from the Dutch colonial era. Now a UNESCO world heritage site, it is also home to

the Jewish afterlife

The Hebrew word for “the Jews,” or, as an adjective, relating to Jews or Judaism. It also refers to a

A Jewish tradition which observes the yearly anniversary of a person’s death. Yahrzeit involves lighting a memorial candle and reciting

A Yeshiva is a type of all-male school which focuses on the thorough study of Jewish texts– although today some

Deriving from Hebrew, German, Aramaic, and some Slavic languages, Yiddish was primarily spoken by Ashkenazi Jews, beginning with central and

A Hebrew word for “settlement,” Yishuv refers to the Jewish populations living in Eretz Israel before the nation of Israel

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