What is the Hebrew word for the holocaust?
Names of the Holocaust capital letter, a usage that also spread to other languages for the same period. The 1978 television miniseries titled "Holocaust" and starring Meryl Streep is often cited as the principal contributor to establishing the current usage in the wider culture. "Holocaust" was selected as the Association for the German Language's Word of the Year in 1979, reflecting increased public consciousness of the term. The Hebrew word "Shoah" is preferred by some people due to the supposed theologically and historically unacceptable nature of the word "holocaust". The American historian Walter Laqueur (whose parents died in the Holocaust) has argued that the
Revival of the Hebrew language Hebrew words took on different meanings altogether. For example, the Hebrew word "kǝvīš" (כביש), which now denotes a "street" or a "road," is actually an Aramaic adjective meaning "trodden down; blazoned", rather than a common noun. It was originally used to describe "a "blazoned" trail." In what most rabbis view as an error, Ben-Yehuda is accredited with introducing the new Hebrew word "ribah" (ריבה) for "confiture; marmalade", believing it to be derived from the lexical root "reḇaḇ", and related to the Arabic word "murabba" (jam; fruit conserves; marmalade). He also invented the word "tapuz" (תפוז) for the citrus fruit orange,