@article{Pollin-Galay2024,
  author    = {Pollin-Galay, Hannah},
  title     = {The Verbal Inheritance of Genocide. The Holocaust Through One Word: ›Shabreven‹},
  journal   = {Zeithistorische Forschungen - Studies in Contemporary History},
  volume    = {20},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  doi       = {10.14765/zzf.dok-2807},
  pages     = {204 -- 224},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This article explores the connection between genocide, language and language consciousness by tracing the strange biography of one Yiddish neologism: shabreven. During the Holocaust, the word came to mean both ›looting‹ and ›taking ownerless property‹. It stoked moral and etymological debate among Yiddish speakers in the Warsaw ghetto, while also occupying a prominent position in postwar Polish and Zionist discourses. The term shifted between different semantic, ethical and cultural fields, navigating a delicate balance between various meanings and norms. The discussions around this term help to shed light on key questions: What were the motivations for the study of Holocaust Yiddish neologisms? How did this early postwar Yiddish philological discourse differ from its parallel in German? Shabreven became both a symbol of the genocidal collapse of language and a tool for regaining victim agency in speech.},
  language  = {en}
}