Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman (Editor), Shaul Magid (Editor)Series:Jewish Culture and ContextsPublish date:2024-09-03Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512825909ISBN-10:1512825905UPC:9781512825909Book Category:Social Science, History, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish Studies, Modern, LinguisticsBook Topic:20th Century, SociolinguisticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC7AH5X75D
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
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 of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes...Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512825909ISBN-10:1512825905UPC:9781512825909Book Category:Social Science, History, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish Studies, Modern, LinguisticsBook Topic:20th Century, SociolinguisticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC7AH5X75D
Hannah Pollin-Galay is Associate Professor of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman (Editor), Shaul Magid (Editor)
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