Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia (Jan 2019)

Jiddische Sprache als Kulturträger in Polen nach der Schoah

  • Anna Rozenfeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18276/cgs.2019.28-03
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28

Abstract

Read online

With the Shoah, the number of speakers of Yiddish was brutally reduced; thus, Yiddish culture was destroyed. In the immediate post-war period, there were initiatives in Poland to preserve and revive the remnants. The article deals with various such manifestations, in particular with the Yiddish programs of the Polish Radio. In the 1950s they increasingly faced attempts of political influence that involved conveying ideological messages. Under these conditions, the Yiddish language played an identity-determining role and became an important cultural carrier, in which the situation in Poland differed from that in other states.

Keywords