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Yiddish, or Jewish German? : The Holocaust, the Goethe-Institut, and Germany’s neglected obligation to peace and the common European cultural heritage

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13/09/2021
Author
Kamusella, Tomasz
Keywords
Yiddish-German language
Yiddish
German
Language politics
Holocaust
Germanistik
Peace studies
European integration
European Union
Jewish studies
Goethe-Institut
JN Political institutions (Europe)
PF West Germanic
PJ Semitic
T-NDAS
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The vast majority of Holocaust victims and survivors were Ashkenazim. Their main language was Yiddish. Yiddish is very close to German, the main difference being that the former is written in Hebrew letters, while the latter in Latin ones. Postwar Europe’s moral foundation is Holocaust remembrance. But this remembrance to be effective, it must be active in the absence of Holocaust survivors. A way to ensure that could be the novel school and university subject of Yiddish for reading purposes. As a result, researchers and interested Europeans would start reading documents and books in Yiddish again. Germany’s premiere cultural organization, Goethe-Institut, is uniquely well-placed and morally obligated to facilitate the relaunch, popularization and cultivation of the skill to read Yiddish-language sources and publications for both the sake of research and for pleasure.
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Kamusella , T 2021 , ' Yiddish, or Jewish German? The Holocaust, the Goethe-Institut, and Germany’s neglected obligation to peace and the common European cultural heritage ' , Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne , vol. 18 , no. 2 , pp. 1-18 . https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.14
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Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.14
ISSN
2353-0928
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2021 by the Author. The work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24378

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