Journey to Oblivion : : The End of the East European Yiddish and German Worlds in the Mirror of Literature / / Peter A. Stenberg.
Before the Second World War, some 25 million people in Eastern Europe spoke Yiddish or German. Their numbers had grown over 750 years. The two language groups spread and developed in relative isolation from each other, though they occupied much the same territory and experienced similar fates during...
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