Yizkor

American  

[yeez-kawr, yis-kuhr, yiz-, yis-ker] / yizˈkɔr, ˈyɪs kər, ˈyɪz-, ˈyɪs kər /

noun

Hebrew.

1. the Jewish service for commemorating the dead, held on Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzereth, the second day of Shavuoth, and the last day of Passover.

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Yizkor British  

/ ˈjizkor /

noun

1. Judaism a memorial prayer included in the liturgy for certain festivals

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Etymology

Origin of Yizkor

yizkōr may He be mindful

Example Sentences

As Ms. Ziegelman now relates in “Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World,” she would learn the answers to her questions after discovering the Luboml yizkor book among her parents’ keepsakes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yizkor, which in Hebrew means “may God remember,” refers to the Jewish memorial prayer for the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal

After the Holocaust, the obligation to never forget led to the creation of an estimated 1,500 yizkor books to preserve, on paper, eyewitness accounts as well as documentary evidence of the once-vital Jewish communities annihilated by the Nazis.

From The Wall Street Journal

In sealing the names of the dead within them, the yizkor books refill that emptiness with the promise of memory.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some offering Yizkor, or remembrance, prayers were doing so in honor of slain loved ones.

From Seattle Times