A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek...
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European Jews. The word holocaust derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos, a burnt offering; see Holocaust (sacrifice). Holocaust may also refer to: Genocide...
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'Holocaust' and 'Shoah' are not useful since neither has any analytical value. 'Holocaust' (derived from the Greek holókauton, or burned sacrifice) has...
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Sven Nykvist. The Sacrifice centers on a middle-aged intellectual who attempts to bargain with God to stop an impending nuclear holocaust. The film combines...
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Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration...
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Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. "The Holocaust" is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination...
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edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering. Others burnt the whole animal offering, called a holocaust. Usually, the best...
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bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt...
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Yad Vashem (redirect from Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority)
Commemorating the Holocaust". Shiur Times: 36–37. Jackie Feldman, "Between Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl: Changing Inscriptions of Sacrifice on Jerusalem’s 'Mountain...
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just as Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky; and the holocaust sacrifice offered by Elijah and burned by fire from heaven corresponds to the...
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Fire worship (redirect from Fire sacrifice)
destructive fire. Ateshgah of Baku Bonfire of the vanities Eternal flame Holocaust (sacrifice) List of fire gods Manipura (fire chakra) Nature worship Nymphaion...
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coreligionists is deemed serious enough to be called a holocaust (meaning a "wholesale sacrifice or destruction".) Some Jewish communal leaders, such as...
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wedding ceremonies, like among the Hindus, is a Vedic fire sacrifice ritual. Dhuni Holocaust (sacrifice) Kupala Night Lag BaOmer Walpurgis Night Yajna Richard...
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Korban (redirect from Sacrifice in Judaism)
halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly reinstated during the Jewish–Roman wars of the second century CE. When sacrifices were offered...
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Moloch (category Child sacrifice)
slaughter, killing in sacrifice, deities "eating" the children, and holocaust. Xella also refers to Carthaginian and Phoenician child sacrifice found referenced...
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Burnt offering (Judaism) (category Jewish animal sacrifice)
sacrificed "as a holocaust" (Greek: εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν). Josephus uses the term both for Abraham and Isaac, but also in relation to the human sacrifice by...
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Schindler's List (category Holocaust films)
"innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust". The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years...
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to 9 October 1958, covering the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler's Germany...
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Elie Wiesel (category American writers about the Holocaust)
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English,...
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the other guy. They wouldn’t sacrifice anything. See, that was the difference.: 380 Jewish women during the Holocaust were especially vulnerable to...
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especially the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust, or of the Jewish exodus from Muslim countries. Holocaust denial and antisemitic tropes are inextricable...
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Kalavryta massacre (redirect from Holocaust of Kalavryta)
The Kalavryta massacre (Greek: Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), or the Holocaust of Kalavryta (Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), was the near-extermination of the male...
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animal cruelty and the Holocaust. The analogies began soon after the end of World War II, when literary figures, many of them Holocaust survivors, Jewish or...
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Amphidromia Ceremonies of ancient Greece Greek divination Animal sacrifice Buphonia Holocaust (sacrifice) Hecatomb Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices Ancient...
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Sophie's Choice (novel) (redirect from Sophie's Choice (Holocaust))
for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. Stingo, a novelist who is recalling the summer when he began his first...
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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD, 27 January) is a national commemoration day in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the Jews and others who...
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Nazi Germany-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the Holocaust by Polish people, at risk...
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This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after...
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Cannibal film (section Cannibal Holocaust)
regarded to have brought the trend to a close. Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, released in 1980, is often considered to be the best-known film of the...
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