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SubscribeCall for Applications for Yiddish and the Holocaust: New Approaches
CFA / YIDDISH AND THE HOLOCAUST: NEW APPROACHES
JUNE 25-26, 2024 | APPLICATION
NEW DEADLINE NOVEMBER 15, 2023
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Among the many languages spoken during the Holocaust, Yiddish stands out in the severity of the blow that it suffered. Linguist Neil Jacobs estimates that the Holocaust took the lives of roughly 5 million Yiddish speakers, out of 11 million living worldwide before the war. Of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, roughly 85 percent were Yiddish speakers. There is, thus, no narrative of modern Yiddish culture that [...]
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