Barry Trachtenberg will be discussing his book: The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish on March 12th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Trachtenberg is the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History and Professor of History at Wake Forest University. The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish untangles the complicated saga of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye and its editors. The editors continued to publish volumes and revise the encyclopedia’s mission while their primary audience, Eastern European Jews, faced persecution and genocide under Nazi rule, and the challenge of reestablishing themselves in the first decades after World War II.