Review 2
History
Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah · Holocaust Remembrance Day
Holocaust Remembrance Day, with study of the forms antisemitism takes.
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The basics
Name, translation, date and length — the facts to have by heart.
Name and timing
- Hebrew name
- Yom HaShoah
- English translation
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Date / timing
- 27 Nisan
- Length
- 1 day
- Historical reason
- Remembrance of the Holocaust.
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Meaning and story
Why this exists, what happened, and the values it carries.
What it means
- Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Story and history
- The day is devoted to memory of the and to understanding how antisemitism operates.
Major themes and values
- Memory as obligation
- The forms and persistence of antisemitism
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Practice
Rituals, symbols, prayers and foods — and the reason behind each.
Rituals and observances
- Memorial ceremonies and communal remembrance.
Why we do these rituals
- Memory is a communal obligation; remembering resists erasure.
Symbols and what they mean
- Memorial candles and ceremonies
- Communal remembrance of the victims.
Important prayers and readings
- Memorial prayers and readings
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Words to know
The Hebrew vocabulary for this topic.
Vocabulary
- Shoah
- The Holocaust.
- Religious antisemitism
- Hatred of Jews on religious grounds.
- Nationalistic antisemitism
- Hatred of Jews framed as national disloyalty.
- Economic antisemitism
- Hatred of Jews expressed through economic stereotypes.
- Folk antisemitism
- Popular, folkloric forms of anti-Jewish hatred.
- Racial antisemitism
- Hatred of Jews defined as a race.
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Beth Din prep
Answer these out loud before you sit down with the rabbis.
What I should be able to explain to the Beth Din
- 1Name and distinguish the five forms of antisemitism: religious, nationalistic, economic, folk and racial.
- 2What Yom HaShoah commemorates.