. This application of the word occurred as early as 1942, but the phrasethe Holocaustdid not become established until the late 1950s. Here it parallels and may have been influenced by another Hebrew word,šô'â,"catastrophe" (in English,Shoah). In the Biblešô'âhas a range of...
“In Jewish numerology, 18 is equivalent to the Hebrew word ‘Chai,’ which means ‘alive.’ Now if you consider that 36 is 2 times 18, and that the prefix for the number two is ‘bi,’ as in bi-coastal or bi-lateral, or, more appropriately, bi-SEXUAL, we can see very clearly ...
. This application of the word occurred as early as 1942, but the phrasethe Holocaustdid not become established until the late 1950s. Here it parallels and may have been influenced by another Hebrew word,šô'â,"catastrophe" (in English,Shoah). In the Biblešô'âhas a range of...
In Hebrew, Yerushalaym means "founded by God", but is also associated with the word shalom (peace), hence the "city of peace", and its Arabic name is Al-Quds (The Holy). The first mentions of Jerusalem date back to the 3rd millennium BC. Egyptian texts indicate the original name ...
Jean-Paul Belmondo glances at a vintage movie still, traces his lips with his thumb and utters the enchanted word “Bogie.” In that simple moment, a cinematic ocean gets crossed. The baton of Old Hollywood has been passed to the French New Wave — but what that means is that it has ...
The poet is doing one thing (in Homer’s case fulfilling a strict metrical pattern, in my case getting in five lines from one end word to the next), and the poem is doing something else altogether. The particular formal principle is arbitrary (five-line stanzas are as “random” as ...
The word ‘memory’ becomes a metaphor for the fashioning of narratives about the past when those with direct experience of events die off. Sites of memory inevitably become sites of second-order memory, places where people remember the memories of others, those who survived the events marked ...
The legacy of the Shoah invades christology as one of its most basic postfoundationalist challenges in the demise of modernity. Fackenheim heuristically am... DH Davis - 《Journal of Church & State》 被引量: 2发表: 1999年 Joseph Ratzinger's contribution to the interpretation of resurrection ...
derived from the Greek wordholokauston, which means sacrifice by fire. It refers to the Nazi persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people and others considered to be inferior to "true" Germans. The Hebrew wordShoah—which means devastation, ruin, or waste—also refers to this ...
shochet Wikipedia (ˈʃɒkɛt; ˈʃɒxɛt) n,plshochetsorshochetim (Judaism) (in Judaism) a person who has been specially trained and licensed to slaughter animals and birds in accordance with the laws of shechita [C19: from Hebrew, literally: slaughtering] ...