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Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon

Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon

Update: 2025-11-17
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We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why.  However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them.

In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro SImon about her work on the ways in which Jews described their oppressors in Yiddish diaries.  She researched diary writers in the Warsaw, Łodz, and Vilnius ghettos.


Amy Shapiro Simon is the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University.

 

Simon, Amy Shapiro.  Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity (2024)

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Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon

Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon