“Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish” with Hannah Pollin-Galay
January 23, 2025
Temple Israel of Boston
Associate Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay of Tel Aviv University joined us for an eye-opening exploration of how language can bear witness to history’s darkest moments. In her groundbreaking new book, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (University of Pennsylvania Press, September 2024), Pollin-Galay introduces us to “Khurbn Yiddish”—the Yiddish of the Holocaust—revealing how Jews, amidst brutality and dehumanization, transformed their language to describe the unimaginable.