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Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings

This is an archive of public readings selected for Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Days.

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📖 נאַכטװערטער | מדרשי צלמוות | Nightwords: A Midrash on the Holocaust, by Dr. David G. Roskies (1970, 4th ed. CLAL: 2000)

The first published liturgy for Yom Hashoah, and containing the first use of cantillated English for liturgical purposes. . . .

Categories: Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings, 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, tropified texts

Contributor(s): David Roskies

על השואה ועל התפלתה | Prayer in the Shoah, an essay and a prayer by Rabbi Dr. David Weiss Halivni (2000)

A meditation on a unique prayer heard by Rabbi Dr. David Weiss Halivni at the Rosh Hashanah services at the Wolfsberg Labor Camp in 1944. . . .

Categories: Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings, 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan), 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer, Davvening, 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., non-dual theology, the Holocaust

Contributor(s): Peter W. Ochs (translation), David Weiss Halivni and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 קריאות לימי זכרון השואה ורצח עם | Torah and Haftarah Readings for Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Days

A Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited for days commemorating genocides such as (but not limited to) the Holocaust. . . .

Categories: Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, השואה the Shoah

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 Overview of Camp No 1, now substantially evacuated, taken from a watch tower used by the German guards. (credit: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Oakes, H (Sgt), license: PD)

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