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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Description: Discovering his family's Nazi links is what happened to historian Martin Puchner when he set out to explore the use of a secret language by Jewish people and other travellers in middle Europe. He joins author and language expert Michael Rosen for a conversation with Matthew Sweet about Yiddish, Rotwelsch, codes and graffiti. Plus as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day hearing about new research into the takeover of railways and civic buildings in occupied France from historians Ludivine Broch and Stephanie Hesz-Wood.Martin Puchner's book is called The Language of Thieves. He teaches English and Comparative Literature...