On Aug 8, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I am not sure I understand what you are asking.
I'll explain. The message coming from you seemed to
contain only a forwarding of Ken's message. Is that
wrong?
Hal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Not exactly Hiroshima but about unhealed wounds
>
>
> Is there a comment on Ken W's remark or just a quotation here?
>
> Hal
>
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>>
>>
> Hal
>
> Today's Special
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> G(e)nome
> http://www.xpressed.org/fall03/genome.pdf
>
> Halvard Johnson
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>
Hal
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