http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Holocaust
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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> Not quite relatedly: when did the term "Holocaust" start
> to be used in its present specific proper-noun sense to refer
> to what was called -- earlier, I think -- the Shoah, at least
> in Hebrew? I have a vague feeling it was sometime in the 60s.
> Does anyone know where this usage originated and how it came
> to be generally accepted?
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