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Book Discussion: Day After Night
The English essayist and poet Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast..." That adage is challenged by the four protagonists in Anita Diamant's book, Day After Night.
antisemitism
Hebrew Spelling
אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת
Alternate Spelling
anti-Semitism
Irrational hatred of Jews.
pogrom
Hebrew Spelling
פּוֹגְרוֹם
Organized attack on Jewish communities in Eastern Europe during the 19th and early 20th century.
(the) Shoah
Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe", referring to the Holocaust.
Yom HaShoah
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יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה
Holocaust Remembrance Day, on which we remember the Holocaust and honor the memory of those who perished.