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Yom HaShoah

A More Meaningful Way to Remember the Holocaust

This Yom HaShoah there is a new way for American Jews to find a more meaningful path to remembrance.
Dara Horn

Dara Horn

Dara Horn

“International Holocaust Remembrance Day always takes me by surprise. Why does this day even exist, I catch myself wondering every year, when the Jewish community has its own Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah? But the difference between these two commemorations exposes the deeper problem with the non-Jewish world’s way of remembering the Holocaust, and also the idea lurking beneath the self-righteousness of articles like this one. Fortunately, this Yom HaShoah, there is a new way for American Jews to find a more meaningful path to remembrance.”

Read the complete essay in Tablet.

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