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Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…

Contributor:

Oskar Rosenfeld

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Jewish languages, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Community

Categories:

Historical writing, Language & Linguistics, Speeches
An Introductory Talk on the Yiddish Language
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do. I am not actually…

Contributor:

Franz Kafka

Places:

Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Yiddish, Jewish languages, Language & linguistics, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches