Shoah

Shoah
   The Hebrew word for the Holocaust that denotes the destruction of the Jews of Europe. An early use of the term can be found in a booklet published in Jerusalem in 1940 entitled “Shoat Yehudi Polin” (Devastation of Polish Jewry). The word attained wider currency in Palestine, when the Jewish Agency in 1942 began to use the term to describe the Jews being murdered in Europe. Historian Zev Garber points out that the Jewish poet Shaul Tschernichovsky (1875–1943) used the term before a group of colleagues when he referred to “the horrible Shoah that is coming upon us.”

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  • SHOAH — En hébreu, shoah signifie catastrophe. Ce terme est de plus en plus employé, de préférence à holocauste, pour désigner l’extermination des juifs réalisée par le régime nazi. Il suggère un sentiment d’épouvante religieuse devant l’anéantissement… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Shoah — [shō′ə] n. 〚ModHeb šo ah < Heb, devastation, catastrophe〛 THE HOLOCAUST (see phrase under HOLOCAUST): usually with the * * * Sho·ah (shōʹə) n. The mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.   [Hebrew šô’â …   Universalium

  • Shoah — (1985) es un documental de Claude Lanzmann sobre el Holocausto …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Shoah — Shoah→Holocaust …   Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • shoah — /ebr. ʃoˈa/ [vc. ebr., propr. «catastrofe»] s. f. inv. olocausto …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • shoah — (izg. šoȁ) DEFINICIJA v. šoa …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Shoah — [shō′ə] n. [ModHeb šo ah < Heb, devastation, catastrophe] THE HOLOCAUST (see phrase under HOLOCAUST): usually with the …   English World dictionary

  • Shoah — /shōˈə/ noun The Jewish Holocaust of World War II ORIGIN: Heb, literally, destruction …   Useful english dictionary

  • Shoah —  Pour les articles homophones, voir choix, Choa et Shoa. Destruction du ghetto de Varsovie, avril 1943 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Shoah — Konzentrationslager Birkenau, Blick von der Zugrampe innen auf die Haupteinfahrt; Aufnahme 1945, kurz nach der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers durch die Rote Armee Als Holocaust [ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st, holoˈkaʊ̯st] (vom …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Shoah — El término hebreo shoah puede referirse a: La shoah, Shoah o shoá (literalmente la catástrofe) es el término hebreo utilizado para referirse al Holocausto (aniquilación judía en Europa por la Alemania nazi). Shoah (1985), de Claude Lanzmann, es… …   Wikipedia Español

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