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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
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Alphabetic Acrostic, Third Reich, פיוטים piyyutim, acronym, קינות Ḳinnot, השואה the Shoah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
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There’s a lot of controversy over Yom haShoah as a date. One of the key issues is this: traditionally, the ways Jews mourn communal tragedies is through establishing a fast day. It’s forbidden to fast during the month of Nisan. It’s hard to pick any specific date to commemorate a tragedy as enormous as the Shoah, but one which seems appropriate to me would be 16 Marḥeshvan, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom. This piyyut is a seliḥah for Kristallnacht, to be recited on 16 Marḥeshvan (or 15 Marḥeshvan on years like 5782 where the sixteenth falls on a Thursday). . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan)
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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, כז ניסן, 27 Nissan, speaking truth to power, North America, symbolic foods, Mourning this Broken World, השואה the Shoah
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The most traumatic event in recent Jewish history is the Holocaust. At this time, the survivors of the camps are aging, and in the lifespan of people alive today it is likely that the last survivor will die. We say we must never forget what happened during the Holocaust, but if we think of it as a tragedy that happened to our ancestors we will forget. But it has been 3000 years since the Exodus from Egypt, and the Haggadah keeps its history vivid and alive. We are taught that in each and every generation we are to think of ourselves as having been slaves in Egypt. May it be that just as we never forgot the wonders of the Exodus, so too we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and continue to strive that such horrors may never happen again until all live in freedom and peace. . . . |
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Mona Lantz Levi (translation), Lada Moskalets (translation), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoyada Amir
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Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
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אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, Romanian translation, Ukrainian translation, mourning, השואה the Shoah
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A prayer for the victims of the Holocaust in Hebrew with English, Romanian, and Ukrainian translations. . . . |
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comYakowenko (translation), Noam Lerman (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Hirsh Glik
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Ḥanukkah, Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
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anti-Nazi, resistance, 58th century A.M., Yiddish songs, Vilna, Ukrainian translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Holocaust, Yiddishland, Guerrilla warfare, partisan resistance, 20th century C.E., anti-fascist action
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The Yiddish resistance song, “Partisaner Lid” (The Partisan Song) was composed by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joseph Herman Hertz and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, United Kingdom, War, Armistice Day, November 11 (Veterans Day, US)
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20th century C.E., Third Reich, military, 58th century A.M., British Jewry, World War II, anti-Nazi, anti-fascist
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“Prayer for Intercession,” almost certainly written by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, was published in the Prayer Book of Jewish Members of H.M. Forces (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1940), pp. 18-19. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joseph Herman Hertz and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, United Kingdom, War, Armistice Day, November 11 (Veterans Day, US)
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Third Reich, military, 58th century A.M., British Jewry, World War II, anti-Nazi, anti-fascist, 20th century C.E.
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This prayer for victory and deliverance in the war against Nazi Germany, simply titled “War Prayer,” appears in the Prayer Book of Jewish Members of H.M. Forces (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1940), pp. 16-17. Sections of the prayer were adapted from the prayer on the declaration of war by Rabbi Hertz in 1914 at the outset of World War I. In the preface to the payer book, Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz specifically mentions this prayer, among others, as having been newly revised for this publication. The initial version of the prayer, likely to have been written by Rabbi Hertz, was published by the Office of the Chief Rabbi for a 17 Tammuz service in July 1938. A revision was disseminated after Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938). This is the third version of the prayer. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joseph Herman Hertz and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
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Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
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World War II, the Holocaust, anti-fascist, 20th century C.E., Jews of India, 57th century A.M., Third Reich, British Empire, German Jewry
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An untitled prayer on behalf of German Jewry under Nazi oppression disseminated in Bombay, likely after Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938). . . . |
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