Author: Hannah Pollin-Galay
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512825913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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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 Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words – Khurbn Yiddish, or “Yiddish of the Holocaust” – puzzled and intrigued the East European Jews who were experiencing the metamorphosis of their own tongue in real time. Sensing that Khurbn Yiddish words harbored profound truths about what Jews endured during the Holocaust, some Yiddish speakers threw themselves into compiling dictionaries and glossaries to document and analyze these new words. Others incorporated Khurbn Yiddish into their poetry and prose. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. Occupied Words investigates Khurbn Yiddish through the lenses of cultural history, philology, and literary interpretation. Analyzing fragments of language consciousness left behind from the camps and ghettos alongside the postwar journeys of three intellectuals—Nachman Blumental, Israel Kaplan and Elye Spivak—Pollin-Galay seeks to understand why people chose Yiddish lexicography as a means of witnessing the Holocaust. She then turns to the Khurbn Yiddish words themselves, focusing on terms related to theft, the German-Yiddish encounter and the erotic female body. Here, the author unearths new perspectives on how Jews experienced daily life under Nazi occupation, while raising questions about language and victimhood. Lastly, the book explores how writers turned ghetto and camp slang into art—highlighting the poetry and fiction of K. Tzetnik (Yehiel Di-Nur) and Chava Rosenfarb. Ultimately, Occupied Words speaks to broader debates about cultural genocide, asking how we might rethink the concept of genocide through the framework of language.

Author: Great Britain. Magistrates' cases
Publisher:
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Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: William Mack
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1436

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

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Author: Pierre W. Orelus
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9460912435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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In this book, the author critically analyzes the wide-ranging effects of western neo-colonial and neo-liberal economic and political policies on Haiti and other oppressed nations. The author’s overarching argument is that western colonization of these countries has taken a different form with a disguised mask.

Author: Haven G. Parrott
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591609968
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Author: Jean Zaru
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451410786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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* Includes an Introduction from Rosemary Radford Ruether * Shows on-the-ground realities of interreligious relations

Author: Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793622329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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In Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti examines American occupation of Japan during World War II and the evolution of Japan’s political parties to highlight the country’s struggles for a democratic and peaceful “Japanese Japan.” Using a dynamic analysis approach, Galanti examines the pre-war, pro-democratic ideals and legacies that built Japan’s political parties and the parties’ evolving views on regime matters, socioeconomic structure, international relations, and security both during and after the country’s occupation by American forces.

Author: Violetta Hionidou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521829321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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This is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the courses and politics of this food crisis, focusing on the demography of the famine and the effectiveness of the relief operations. Her interdisciplinary approach combines demographic, historical and anthropological methodologies to offer a comprehensive account of the famine. This important study makes a major contribution to current debates about mortality and its causes during famines.