Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay

312 pages hardcover 2024

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nonfiction history
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How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization o...

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