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Re: Name meaning?
Sounds unikely to me, since it's close to shoah, ie the Jewish Holocaust.Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
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Well, that all depends on how old the person with the name is, I'd guess. When did "shoah" become the common word for the holocaust in the Jewish community?
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