Definition of Yizkor in English:

nounYizkor, Yizkors

• A memorial service held by Jews on certain holy days for deceased relatives or martyrs.

  More example sentences

  • ‘On the Jewish holidays at the Yizkor service, I feel really good.’
  • ‘The Yizkor service was instituted so that the Jew may pay homage to his forebears and recall the good life and traditional goals.’
  • ‘On the day of Yizkor, one should attend services in the morning.’
  • ‘These are the opening words of Yizkor, the central prayer for the dead recited on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.’