A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938 by Aya Elyada non-media "And the World Stood Silent"

"And the World Stood Silent" is invaluable as a historical account and as a documentary source

and feminist leader--Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel

Brimming with her signature wit

Bellow's relations with women were often fraught

local Nazi commanders—anxious about the possible consequences of outright murder—decided to leave the remaining prisoners to die in droves rather than sending them directly to the gas chambers

A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938 by Aya Elyada non-media "And the World Stood Silent"This book explores a unique and under researched chapter in German Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. From the late eighteenth century onwards, as growing circles of the German Jewish population shifted from speaking Yiddish to German, the once popular early modern corpus of Old Yiddish literature ceased to be published in the German speaking