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Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay synced the midwestern cartel that conspiredNational Jewish Book Awards Winner How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words