Modern History Quiz

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Questions of national identity and Jewish identity were central to the experience of modernity for Jews everywhere. How much do you know about Jewish history since 1650?

Question 1 of 10
What is the largest Jewish denomination in the United States?
Question 2 of 10
What was the name of the ship of German Jewish refugees that was turned away from both American and Cuban ports in 1939?
Question 3 of 10
Solomon Schechter was
Question 4 of 10
What does the term hofjuden refer to?
Question 5 of 10
What percentage of European Jewry perished in the Holocaust?
Question 6 of 10
According to the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), what was the Jewish intermarriage rate in the United States?
Question 7 of 10
Which war moved American Jewry toward unwavering support of the State of Israel?
Question 8 of 10
What year did Menachem Mendel Schneerson--the last Chabad rebbe--die?
Question 9 of 10
Jacob Frank was
Question 10 of 10
Moses Mendelssohn was a Jewish scholar who
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