Modern Jewish Literatures, 2011, p.263
2011
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- Inserted Notes: David Boder’s DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust
- Ist Teil von
- Modern Jewish Literatures, 2011, p.263
- Ort / Verlag
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
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- Alma/SFX Local Collection
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- The choice of language among European Jews was never neutral. During the Holocaust, contention over languages intensified: idealistic calls for a return to Jewish languages competed with realistic defections to the vernacular. Speaking a flawless German, Polish, or Ukrainian, moreover, could help one escape the persecutor’s net. In the main arenas of terror, Jews forged their own tongues: coded communication in the ghetto, a fabricated jargon in the camps. In the war’s aftermath, language continued to be marked by these wartime struggles. Psychologist David Boder claimed that the victim’s postwar speech bore evidence of trauma, and this was one of
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- Englisch
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- ISBN: 0812242726, 9780812242720Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt3fhx44_16
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- –
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- Alcoholic beverages, Anthropology, Applied linguistics, Applied sciences, Autobiographies, Beers, Behavioral sciences, Beverages, Biography, Cities, City districts, Concentration camps, Crimes against humanity, Criminal law, Criminal offenses, Death marches, Ethnic groups, Ethnology, Ethnoreligious groups, Fermented beverages, Food, Food science, Foodstuffs, Forced migration, Ghettos, Historical methodology, Historiography, History, Holocaust, Human geography, Human migration, Human populations, International humanitarian law, International law, Internment camps, Jewish ghettos, Jewish peoples, Lagers, Language, Language translation, Law, Laws of war, Linguistics, Metropolitan areas, Persons, Political geography, Population studies, Prisoners, Social sciences