Occupied words: what the holocaust did to yiddish
Auteur :
Pollin-Galay, Hannah
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9781512825909
Date de publication :
3 sept. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions through lenses of cultural history, philology, and literary interpretation.