The Devil's Arithmetic

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (8)
  2. 5. The father of your father or mother (7)
  3. 7. A woman who has given birth to a child (6)
  4. 10. A Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II (9)
  5. 12. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols (6)
  6. 13. A Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ (6)
  7. 14. The whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition (5)

Down

  1. 1. Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition (8)
  2. 3. The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship (8)
  3. 4. Food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law (6)
  4. 6. The month following March and preceding May (5)
  5. 8. A Jewish festival celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt (8)
  6. 9. A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words (7)
  7. 11. The ceremonial dinner on the first night of Passover (5)