This led to a declining importance and use of the Yiddish language. During that time, about 5,2 million Jews were able to speak Yiddish in Eastern Europe, but after the Second World War almost five million of them were dead. Jews were treated as pariahs in a lot of countries and they had their own language: Yiddish. ![]() The song is a good witness of the things that happened to Jews during the 1930’s not only in Germany. The song deals with the burning of a “Schtetl“, a yiddish town, and the citizens who are watching but not helping to extinguish the fire. It deals with the pogroms that took place in Poland and was a forerunner of the sad events to come with the invasion by the German Reich. The verse is an extract of a yiddish song called “‘Ss brent, Brider, ‘ss brent!“ and was written 1938 in Poland by Mordechaj Gebirtig. Un ir schtejt un kukt asoj sich, unser Schtetl brent!“ Un ir schtejt un kukt asoj sich mit farlejgte Hent, The use and representation of yiddish in “Maus“ ![]() III.The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany
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