UCL – Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: UCL
Address:
UCL
Gower Street
London
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust
29 January 2025
1300-1400
Yiddish was the language spoken by approximately 5 million of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Until the mid-20th century, Yiddish was the most widely-spoken Jewish vernacular, and it remains a crucial language for examining the destruction of east European Jewry as documented by the victims themselves. In this talk, Dr Sonia Gollance will explain what is Yiddish, how it helps us understand prewar Jewish civilisation and the vital significance of Yiddish for Holocaust research and commemoration.
Speaker:
Dr Sonia Gollance
Associate Professor in Yiddish at UCL
Dr Sonia Gollance is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at UCL. She is a scholar of Yiddish Studies and German-Jewish literature whose work focuses on dance, theatre, and gender. Her first book, It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity, was published by Stanford University Press in May 2021. A National Jewish Book
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