Length: 15 minutes
Why do we call the destruction of European Jews “the Holocaust”? This brief lecture provides an overview of the various terms used to describe this genocide. Introduction to a series of brief lectures on the Holocaust.
Lectures in Jewish History and Thought. No hard questions, please.
Enjoyed the first installment
Shalom rabbi, you said Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide from the greek term genos meaning PEOPLE . Is it possible that this word gehinom be conected to that same greek term genos which also comes from gehena a place where PEOPLE were burned?