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As much as war is about armed military conflict, it is also fundamentally about mass displacement, broken lives, and lost futures. This simple truth has become way too obvious in large parts of Poland, where providing food, clothes and shelter to strangers, and collecting donations to help refugees from neighboring Ukraine have become common practices among “ordinary” people. Much of the efforts of this grassroots mass mobilization to help those escaping their war-torn country falls on the shoulders of various parts of society, including individual activists and non-activists as well as civil society organizations.
What is perhaps less visible in this civil society mobilization and its media coverage are the efforts of migrant and minority communities that do their share in offering relief to those fleeing from Ukraine.
Zu Beginn der Ausstellung fällt der Blick auf zwei Fotografien. Sie sind prominent inmitten des einleitenden Wandtextes im Eingangsbereich platziert, der Ausstellungsbesucher:innen ebenso empfängt wie Angestellte des Dubnow-Instituts oder Menschen, die in der Goldschmidtstraße 28 in Leipzig anderweitig arbeiten oder zu Besuch sind. Erstere bleiben stehen, lernen, welche Rolle die beiden Bilder spielen und in welchem Kontext sie stehen, nehmen wohl an einer Führung von Julia Roos oder Monika Heinemann teil, beide vom Dubnow-Institut, die neben Agnieszka Kajczyk vom Jüdischen Historischen Institut in Warschau die Kuratorinnen der Ausstellung sind.
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.