YIDDISH 3399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intertextuality, Elie Wiesel, Ida Fink
16 Dec 2019
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Yiddish language: approximately 1000 years old (germany/central europe, 12 million speakers before wwii; 6 million speakers after wwii, 85 % of jews killed spoke yiddish. Influences on prevalence of yiddish language/culture: holocaust, assimilation, yiddish at universities ( yiddish revival) Ashkenaz: refers to an area of land in central/eastern europe, highest population of jews in the worlds before the holocaust. Child victims: roughly 1. 5 million of the dead were jewish children, even greater numbers were orphaned no family, no home, no countries willing to allow them to immigrate. Who is responsible: nazi regime, nazi allies/paid workers/counterparts (lithuanians, french, polies, others cooperated with. Jews paid to be police officer of ghettos. Pogrom: anti-jewish violence often supported by local law enforcement, took place throughout russian territories (poland, lithuania, ukraine, belarus, russia) in 19th and early 20th centuries. Jews, supporters raped, killed, beaten; jewish businesses, places of worship vandalized/destroyed.
