The First Crusade and the Jews of Western Europe:
Glossary
- Daas Z'kenim
- a commentary on the Pentateuch, written during the Crusades
- galus
- exile, diaspora; also, a period of exile, diaspora
- halacha
- Jewish law
- halachic
- having to do with halacha; according to halacha. (This is constructed of the word halacha and the English suffix ic.)
- kina
- elegy, esp. one recited on Tish'a B'av
- kinos
- pl. of kina
- kohen
- a patrilineal descendant of the Biblical personality Aaron
- levi
- a non-kohen who is a patrilineal descendant of the Biblical personality Levi
- mitzva
- good deed
- rishon
- any great rabbi living during a certain period, approximately spanning the period of the Crusades
- rishonim
- pl. of rishon
- Shavuos
- the Jewish holiday Pentecost, which is the sixth and seventh days of the Jewish month Sivan
- Tish'a B'av
- the ninth day of the Jewish month Av, a Jewish day of mourning
- Tosafos
- a commentary on the Talmud, written during the Crusades
- Yom Hashoa
- Holocaust Day; see Commemorating the Crusade
- yotz'ros
- liturgical poems recited during a certain part of the morning prayers