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![]() That raises troubling follow-up questions. “My point, of course, is 80 percent of the people who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,” she said. That’s a far tougher question for most in the room. ![]() “I would then ask those same readers: how many people here can name three Yiddish writers?” “That’s often something that many readers can do-or just three concentration camps,” Horn told the Straight by phone. author and essayist Dara Horn has a simple exercise to demonstrate how little most people know about Jewish culture.Īt public events, she asks how many of her readers in the audience can name four Nazi concentration camps. ![]()
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