2021 Holocaust Remembrance Lecture with Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko
05 May 2021

Some Perspectives on the Destruction of European Jewry

The destruction of European Jewry, designated as the Holocaust, is an epoch-making event, after which the fundamentals of civilization are never again the same. This evening’s effort will attempt to present an outline of some of the features of this epoch-making event, its history, its religious consequences for Christianity and Judaism, and its effects on the development of the Jewish people and Western civilization.