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  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
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    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Leer más

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  • Religion and Trade

    Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900

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    Réseaux marchands, diaspora sépharade et commerce lointain. De la Méditerranée à l'océan Indien, XVIIIe siècle

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    What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

    Series series Histories of Economic Life
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