#15 Holocaust (Rerun)

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

Israel, Tlv1, Religion & Spirituality, Language Learning, Education, Language, Judaism, Hebrew, Streetwise

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The word שואה, holocaust, used to be a sacred word. Not anymore. Like many loaded words, we used and reused it. Now you can hear people using Sho’a in totally different contexts.

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New Words and Expressions:

Shoah – Holocaust – שואה

Amud ha-esh – Pillar of fire – עמוד האש

Yom Hazikaron La-shoah ve-la-gvura (Yom Ha-shoah) – The Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day – יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, יום השואה

Germania ha-natsit – Nazi Germany – גרמניה הנאצית

“Ani ba-tor ba-bank, shoah po” – “I am waiting in line in the bank, it’s shoah here” – אני בתור בבנק, שואה פה

Shoati – Holocaust-esque, shoah-like – שואתי

“Al tihye shoa’ti” – Don’t be sho’ati – אל תהיה שואתי

Playlist and Clips:

Amud ha-esh soundtrack by Shem Tov Levy

Amud Ha-esh – narration: Yossi banai

TV2 interview with animal activist Gary Yourofsky

Ep. 97 about the word Amud

Transcript

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0:00.0	Shalom, it's me, Guy, with Streetwise Hebrew. This week we are replaying an episode from our archive.
0:06.7	Patrons will find the brand new All-Hebrews sister episode written and recorded this week on patreon.com
0:14.3	slash streetwise Hebrew or in your podcast app through the private podcast feed.
0:19.8	As you may already know, we started creating the all-Hebrew episodes,
0:24.1	starting with episode number 181.
0:28.0	So once in a while, we go back into the archives
0:30.5	and create the Hebrew versions for previous episode, like this week.
0:35.2	Enjoy.
0:36.8	This is TLB1.
0:46.8	Streetwise Hebrew.
0:49.1	Shalom. It's me, Guy from Streetwise Hebrew.
0:51.8	Today we're going to talk about Shoa, the Holocaust.
0:55.0	The word Shoa, Holocaust, which means total destruction, catastrophe. The word Shoa, Holocaust, is a biblical word which means total destruction, catastrophe.
1:14.4	The word Shoa today means the systematic murder of millions of people by the Nazis in the
1:19.4	Second World War.
1:21.0	This music, written by Shem Tov Levi, is the theme of Amud Haesh, Pillar of Fire.
1:27.4	A documentary series telling the story of the State of Israel.
1:30.5	It was produced by the Israeli Public TV channel in 1981, and they still broadcast reruns of it.
1:36.7	Bistav, 1993, Nittoraheufu Haym of the Jhuda Varsha.
1:42.3	The Germans were, the air of a shatter-hzary of terror and redififot. Today, this narration sounds full of our lives of
1:48.6	but back in the 80s it was part of our life we watched it at school as part of history classes
1:54.7	in the episode about the holocaust the makers talk to survivors who told their stories
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