5-425: The Silent Holocaust may refer to: Silent Holocaust (Judaism) Jewish assimilation § Contemporary debate Guatemalan genocide Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Silent Holocaust . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
10-502: A " second holocaust ") is a controversial expression that has been used with various meanings, and is used by certain Jewish communal and religious leaders to describe Jewish assimilation ( cultural assimilation , religious assimilation ) and interfaith marriages between Jews and gentiles . The term compares the resulting demographic effects (decrease in the Jewish population) to
15-645: Is deemed serious enough to be called a holocaust (meaning a "wholesale sacrifice or destruction".) Some Jewish communal leaders, such as Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald of the National Jewish Outreach Program in New York, refer to the assimilation of Jews into non-Jewish societies as a type of Holocaust. Since World War II , assimilation has been the leading cause of Jewish population decline in Western countries . Buchwald said in 1992 that
20-554: The Holocaust of Europe's Jews during World War II resulting in the genocide of six million Jews. Communal leaders, such as Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald of the National Jewish Outreach Program , popularized the phrase. The word silent is meant to evoke a state of shock due to the fact that millions of Jews are freely choosing to leave Judaism . For some, the loss of millions of Jewish coreligionists
25-478: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silent_Holocaust&oldid=1179819172 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Silent Holocaust (Judaism) Silent Holocaust ( Hebrew : שואה שקטה , romanized : Shoah Shketa , sometimes called "another holocaust" or
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