Hannah Pollin-Galay: Occupied Words

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Happy New Year! אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר Highlights: Prof. Hannah Pollin-Galay is interviewed about the impact of the Holocaust on the Yiddish language and her most recent book Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (U Penn Press, 2024), which explores how Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust. Prof. Pollin-Galay also reads several excerpts from the book (in English). Prof. Pollin-Galay is Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History, Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies at Un