alienate - arouse hostility or indifference in, bar mitzvah - an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility, barrack - lodge in buildings used to house military personnel, Bris - the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life, concentration - the spatial property of being crowded together, Elijah - a Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols; he was persecuted for rebuking Ahab and Jezebel (king and queen of Israel); he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (circa 9th century BC), gruesome - shockingly repellent; inspiring horror, holocaust - an act of mass destruction and loss of life, kosher - conforming to dietary laws, Lublin - an industrial city of eastern Poland, Matzo/Matzoh - brittle flat bread eaten at Passover, midden - a heap of dung or refuse, Passover - (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammal, Sabbath - a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians, Seder - the ceremonial dinner on the first night of Passover, Torah - the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit, yarmulke - a skullcap worn by religious Jews, especially at prayer, Yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script, plague - any large-scale calamity,

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