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	Podcast:		The Jefferson Exchange
	Episode:		The footprints of trauma in post-Holocaust Yiddish explored in new book
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:30:02
	Publish Date:		2025-01-27 22:00:03
	Description:		( Hannah Pollin-Galay) The Yiddish language was once almost universal in European Jewish communities. But the Holocaust didn't just result in the death of 5 million Yiddish speakers and the decimation of the communities in which it thrived. It also led to changes in the language itself, as Jews living in ghettos and concentration camps had to create new words to describe their new reality. In an interview hosted by Charlie Zimmerman, the JX visited with Hannah Pollin-Galay, author of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish.
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