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From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Not exactly Hiroshima but about unhealed wounds
>He said that for any ethnic group to use
"Holocaust" was an attempt to appropriate the Jewish experience and
simultaneously demean it. The message seemed to be Go Find Your Own
Language, Don't Grab Ours.
the word is Middle English from Old French from Latin from Greek and its use
to indicate the experience of european jews and many others is only one of
its meanings though by far the most important one now
to limit it to the jewish experience would be an act of appropriation
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