Sublime

Fritz, Harro, Ernst, and Hellmuth were deemed worthy of intense therapeutic support and education, whereas both Elfriede and Margarete were deemed ineducable, of no social worth, unlikely to ever successfully perform ‘domestic duties’ or form ‘personal relationships’. So they were sent off to Am Spiegelgrund. The ‘ineducable’ Elfriede wrote letters

Lady Plackett took the binoculars. Her sight was less keen than her daughter’s but she too agreed that the girl was Ruth. She turned to Miss Somerville. ‘This is unfortunate,’ she said. ‘And quite irregular. The girl is a Jewish refugee who seems to think that she is entitled to every sort of privilege.’

his native Lithuanian shtetl, Ponievezh, was among the many Jewish towns forcibly evacuated during the First World War, catapulting him and hundreds of thousands of other Jewish refugees into modernity.

modernization, migration, and the Holocaust drastically transformed and displaced Yiddish language, literature, and culture. The newly established State of Israel also displaced Yiddish, even as it served as a site for the displacement of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the postwar period.