Jewish Geography Quiz

Birthplace of Abraham according to the book of Genesis.

City of the Temple and capital of the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

Capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

The Samaritans' holy mountain and location of their Temple.

Land of the Exile in 586 BCE.

Empire from which the Maccabees won their freedom.

Egyptian city with an especially prominent Jewish diaspora in antiquity, home of the Hellenistic philosopher Philo.

Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

Hometown of a certain Yeshua bar Miryam.

Site of the doomed last stand of the First Jewish-Roman War.

City in the Galilee where the Masoretic Text was finalized. Named after a Roman emperor.

Center of Jewish learning during the Abbasid period (8th-13th centuries CE).

Chinese city with a Persian Jewish diaspora community since the Song Dynasty.

Historical hub of the Kabbalah, burial place of Shimon bar Yochai.

City where Shabtai Zvi converted to Islam, to the dismay of hundreds of thousands of followers.

Country of the deadliest pogroms in history before the Holocaust.

City with the largest Jewish population before the Holocuast.