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:
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> From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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
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