Yiddish New York 2024

Name: Lecture: Der grester Khurbn - Knowledge of the Holocaust in the Americas during the War Period
Start: 2024-12-24T16:15:00-0500
End: 2024-12-24T17:30:00-0500

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Tuesday December 24, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST

507 - Hebrew Union College

Have you ever wondered what Ashkenazi Jews in the Americas knew about the Khurbn (Holocaust) as it was unfolding? What did they know about the mass killings? Did they keep their mouths shut, or did they protest? Were children learning about these atrocities at school? How did the information flow? Contrary to popular belief and to historiographic trends, Jews in the Americas gained detailed knowledge about the fate of their brethren. To debunk the “myth of silence” during the Holocaust and the following years, we have to focus on the language par excellence spoken by Ashkenazi immigrants at that time: Yiddish! We will answer these questions and many more by looking at the Mexican case and various sources and documents in Yiddish.

Speakers

Tamara Gleason Friedberg

Tamara Gleason Freidberg is a historian (MPhil by UNAM, Mexico) and a gerontologist (MSc by King’s College London). She is the author of Di Shvue, los bundistas en México y su participación en la comunidad judía (Mexico City: Palabra de Clío, 2016), a book about the bundist... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

Yiddish New York 2024

Tamara Gleason Friedberg

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