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Jewish Geography Quiz

Some major places in Jewish history before WWII.
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Birthplace of Abraham according to the book of Genesis.
Ur of the Chaldeans
City of the Temple and capital of the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
Jerusalem
Capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Samaria
The Samaritans' holy mountain and location of their Temple.
Mount Gerizim
Land of the Exile in 586 BCE.
Babylonia
Empire from which the Maccabees won their freedom.
Seleucid Empire
Egyptian city with an especially prominent Jewish diaspora in antiquity, home of the Hellenistic philosopher Philo.
Alexandria
Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Qumran
Hometown of a certain Yeshua bar Miryam.
Nazareth
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Site of the doomed last stand of the First Jewish-Roman War.
Masada
City in the Galilee where the Masoretic Text was finalized. Named after a Roman emperor.
Tiberias
Center of Jewish learning during the Abbasid period (8th-13th centuries CE).
Baghdad
Chinese city with a Persian Jewish diaspora community since the Song Dynasty.
Kaifeng
Historical hub of the Kabbalah, burial place of Shimon bar Yochai.
Safed
City where Shabtai Zvi converted to Islam, to the dismay of hundreds of thousands of followers.
Constantinople
Country of the deadliest pogroms in history before the Holocaust.
Ukraine (Khmelnytsky Rebellion)
City with the largest Jewish population before the Holocuast.
Warsaw
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