The UJA Committee for Yiddish Presents Our 2025 Yiddish Holocaust Education Lecture

 

 

 

Yiddish Writers, Yiddish Books, and Yiddish Publishing Companies in Vienna in the 1930s and their Fate during the Holocaust

 

ייִדישע שרײַבער, ייִדישע ביכער און ייִדישע פֿאַרלאַגן אין װין אין די צװאַנציקע און דרײַסיקע יאָרן און זײער גורל אין דער צײַט פֿון דער צװײטער װעלט-מלחמה

 

Thomas Soxberger

 

Recorded live on Zoom, Sunday, November 2, 2025

*This program is in Yiddish.*

For an overview of the history of Yiddish publishing in Vienna and a discussion of Thomas Soxberger's annotated biography, please see Susanne Klingenstein's recent article in In Geveb: "Yiddish in Vienna, 1904-1938: A Bibliography Tells (Nearly) All."

 

Thomas Soxberger holds a PhD in Jewish Studies and History from Vienna University and an MA in Yiddish Studies from London University. He wrote his dissertation on modern Yiddish culture in Vienna, which was published as: Revolution am Donaukanal. Jiddische Kultur und Politik in Wien 1904 bis 1938 (Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag 2013). He is also the author of a number of articles on Yiddish culture and literature and Jewish history and has published several translations from Yiddish into German. His findings on Yiddish printing in Vienna have resulted in the annotated bibliography: „Gründen wir einen jiddischen Verlag!“ Jiddische Bücher, Zeitschriften und Broschüren aus Wien. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie (Arco Wissenschaft, Wuppertal –Vienna 2025). Currently he works for the press service of the Austrian Parliament.

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This program is co-sponsored by the Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation and the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.