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Review of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
There is a well-known Yiddish proverb that argues Verter zol men vegn un nit tseyln (Words should be weighed and not counted). But when one pays attention to the weight of words in the way Hannah Pollin-Galay does, every word counts.
Feb 18, 2025
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Review of Barry Trachtenberg's The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
The three decades of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye trace the fate of Yiddish diaspora nationalism before and after the Second World War and the genocide of Europe’s Jews.
Jan 23, 2024