Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Tiny Spaces, Big Ideas - Hannah Pollin-Galay

Thousands of new words were invented in the Yiddish language during the Holocaust, terms that unlock deeply human histories of this catastrophe.

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About the Lecturer

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies
Professor of History
Professor of Judaic Studies
Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies

Hannah Pollin-Galay is a professor of Judaic Studies and History and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies at UMass Amherst.

Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies