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Yiddish Language During 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 Holocaust, prisoners added or reinvented t...
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Yiddish Language During the Holocaust is an episode from New Books in Jewish Studies by New Books Network. The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the im...
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Published Aug 5, 2026, 62:28 long, audio available.