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...of national founders or heroes are also types of commemorative festivals. In some Protestant countries, Reformation Day has assumed the position of a holiday either nationally or locally. In Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the systematic destruction of European Jews by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ’40s.
...move the date from the month of Nisan altogether. A political compromise was reached in 1951; a date shortly after Passover, the 27th of Nisan, was chosen. The Israeli parliament declared that day Yom Hashoah ve Hagevurah (Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day), marking not only destruction but resistance.
...(communal farms) stress the agricultural significance of the festivals. Independence Day is a national holiday; the preceding day, Remembrance Day, commemorates Israel’s war dead. Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day)—marking the systematic destruction of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945 and recalling the short-lived ghetto uprisings—is observed officially on...
in Jewish religious year: The situation today )...(communal farms) stress the agricultural significance of the festivals. Independence Day is a national holiday; the preceding day, Remembrance Day, commemorates Israel’s war dead. Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—marking the systematic destruction of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945 and recalling the short-lived Ghetto uprisings—is commemorated officially on Nisan...
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