Under the Noses of the Nazis, Yiddish Thrived
Oppression and mass murder did not defeat a culture; the Nazis tried but did not erase peoplehood. They certainly destroyed millions of Jews and others, but they did not destroy Yiddish. On this Keeping Democracy Alive, talking about her new book Occupied Words, author professor Hannah Pollin-Galay describes how the prisoners of the camps kept their language alive. Creative resistance works. It lives today!
