u/Riddick_B_Riddick

"While the JAFC was supported by the Soviet government during World War Two as it worked to rally international Jewish support (and funding) for the war effort, after the war the very fact that the committee appealed to Jews around the world caused it to be branded as nationalist and therefore criminal in the Soviet Union. Secondly, the night of the execution was only the end of an ordeal that had gone on for years. The trial of the JAFC members lasted for two months, and this came after they had been imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured for two or three years in some cases.

The principle defendant in the trial, Solomon Lozovskii, testified that, “What is on trial here is the Yiddish language.”

Among the murdered were several of the most prominent Soviet Yiddish writers and from 1949-59 all Yiddish publishing was banned

Sources:

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/educational-programs/resources-teachers/resource-kits-teachers/soviet-jewish-experience/night?utm_source=email&utm_medium=weeklyreader&utm_campaign=0809markish

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4466454

https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/85

https://www.jmberlin.de/en/symposium-night-of-murdered-poets

https://academic.oup.com/book/39941/chapter-abstract/340221246?redirectedFrom=fulltext

I'm having trouble parsing this sentence. Would appreciate any help 🙏🏻

I came across a sentence of what I believe to be Polish in a Yiddish novel and was wondering if anyone would be able to translate it.

In the story a fight breaks out between Jewish shopkeepers and Christian picketers and a peasant woman shouts:

"Khlopy, pomohayte, nashikh boyt!..."

Thanks 🙏🏻

There's a passage in this novel describing a predatory Jewish pawnbroker called Gedalye who the Ukrainian peasants hate and they curse him by saying:

“A shob na tebe Gedalye napav!..”

Any idea what it means? Thanks 🙏🏻

Thank you

"פארמאשקענען" און "צעפלאכטענער"

"זאל מיך שוין אזוי וויסן א בייזע וועטשערע"

"אנגעארבעט א חתונה"

Thanks 🙏🏻

"ווען-סע-ניט-איז"

Thank you 🙏🏻