Linguistic conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53

The term Shoah usually translated into English as Holocaust did not become the standard term describing the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during WWII until some years after the war ended. This article proposes to illustrate that linguistic conceptualization of the fate of European Jewry under the Nazis which reveals the process of internalization of the Holocaust among the Jews of Palestine the Yishuv -and Israel. The period in question begins in 1942, when the first public announcement on the Final Solution , until August 1953, when the Israeli Knesset (parliament) ratified the Yad Vashem Law and The Law of Remembrance of the Holocaust and Heroism