Lunch Hour Lecture | Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust
Dr Sonia Gollance will be giving this Lunch Hour Lecture marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
Lunch Hour Lecture | Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust
29 Jan 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
About the lecture:
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.
Dr Sonia Gollance
Lecturer in Yiddish
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 Awards finalist and winner of a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, this book was released in paperback in October 2023. Previously she taught at the University of Vienna, The Ohio State University, and the University of Göttingen (Germany). Gollance serves on the Editorial Board of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Committee and the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies Advisory Board.
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