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Article: Yiddish after the Holocaust.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Yiddish after the Holocaust. Ed. by JOSEPH SHERMAN. Oxford: Boulevard. 2004. 322 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-899460-31-1.
This volume consists of sixteen essays selected from those presented at a conference held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in August 2003. The essays, written by an international and multidisciplinary roster of authors, cover expansive ground geographically, chronologically, and methodologically.
The first eight essays assess the state of Yiddish culture and attempts at 'recuperation and renewal' from the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust to the present (p. 10). Nathan Cohen's meticulously researched ...