Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton. What are the three ...
(Hebrew does not have a Z in its alphabet, therefore I am simply transliterating it with the letter tsade (צ) which is closer to the ‘ts’ sound of Hebrew, rather than the z as in zebra.) Therefore, the USHMM commemorates something which is not actually a integral part of American...