Book Talk: Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay In brief Date - 23 September 2024 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speaker - Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University) Format - Book launch and panel discussion About the event The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding pre-war language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanisation of the Nazi occupation, Yiddish speakers added or reinvented thousands of words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words - Khurbn Yiddish, or "Yiddish of the Holocaust"- puzzled and intrigued the East European Jews who were experiencing the metamorphosis of their own tongue in real time. Sensing that Khurbn Yiddish words harboured profound truths about what Jews endured during the Holocaust, some Yiddish speakers threw themselves into compiling dictionaries and glossaries to document and analyse these new words. Others incorporated Khurbn Yiddish into their poetry and prose. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. At this event, she will launch the book, as well as participate in a panel discussion with Professor Hannah Holtschneider (School of Divinity), Dr Phil Alexander (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr Hanna Schumacher (German), introduced by Dr Jenny Watson (German). Copies of Occupied Words will be available to purchase on the night at a discount, and can also be bought online via the University of Pennsylvania Press's website. Buy Occupied Words on the Penn Press website About the speaker Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay is Senior Lecturer of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University. She researches and teaches in Holocaust Studies, Yiddish literature and all the ways that these two fields intersect. The theoretical side of her work focuses on the connection between language, memory and embodiment. How to attend This event is free to attend, and open to all. Registration details are to follow. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and languages. Find out more about studying with us Sep 23 2024 18.00 - 20.00 Book Talk: Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay An in-person discussion of the new publication by Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University), 'Occupied Words: What the Holocaust did to Yiddish', which explores the origins of Khurbn Yiddish as a testament to collective memory and the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Book Talk: Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay In brief Date - 23 September 2024 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speaker - Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University) Format - Book launch and panel discussion About the event The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding pre-war language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanisation of the Nazi occupation, Yiddish speakers added or reinvented thousands of words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words - Khurbn Yiddish, or "Yiddish of the Holocaust"- puzzled and intrigued the East European Jews who were experiencing the metamorphosis of their own tongue in real time. Sensing that Khurbn Yiddish words harboured profound truths about what Jews endured during the Holocaust, some Yiddish speakers threw themselves into compiling dictionaries and glossaries to document and analyse these new words. Others incorporated Khurbn Yiddish into their poetry and prose. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. At this event, she will launch the book, as well as participate in a panel discussion with Professor Hannah Holtschneider (School of Divinity), Dr Phil Alexander (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr Hanna Schumacher (German), introduced by Dr Jenny Watson (German). Copies of Occupied Words will be available to purchase on the night at a discount, and can also be bought online via the University of Pennsylvania Press's website. Buy Occupied Words on the Penn Press website About the speaker Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay is Senior Lecturer of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University. She researches and teaches in Holocaust Studies, Yiddish literature and all the ways that these two fields intersect. The theoretical side of her work focuses on the connection between language, memory and embodiment. How to attend This event is free to attend, and open to all. Registration details are to follow. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and languages. Find out more about studying with us Sep 23 2024 18.00 - 20.00 Book Talk: Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay An in-person discussion of the new publication by Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University), 'Occupied Words: What the Holocaust did to Yiddish', which explores the origins of Khurbn Yiddish as a testament to collective memory and the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Sep 23 2024 18.00 - 20.00 Book Talk: Dr Hannah Pollin-Galay An in-person discussion of the new publication by Professor Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University), 'Occupied Words: What the Holocaust did to Yiddish', which explores the origins of Khurbn Yiddish as a testament to collective memory and the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions.
