Rhetorical question
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'Holocaust' is the Greek term for when the whole animal is sacrificed rather than just the bones and the fat.
So then how did that term come to be used by jews for that event? Has any Jew actually offered up an explanation? If it's a word.that doesn't even exist outside a few rare contexts, then they had to have chosen it for a reason. In fact that was probably THE reason. Something no infrequently used it's basically a novel word.
'The Jews' use the term Shoah, which means catastrophe. It's historians who use holocaust. Not sure why. Possibly because the bodies were burned afterwards.
Pulled completely out of my ass, but in one sense they could look at dead Jews as a sacrifice made to earn the formation of Israel. /shrug
So who coined it?
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