Holocaust-era Nazi words persist in Israeli cultural history and literature

Evidence

In this chapter, I want to shift, momentarily and quite painfully, the inquiry that governs this book-the Jew, the Arab-and turn toward language in order to consider one of the “words that have already settled in Hebrew and Yiddish literature and have become part of our cultural history.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 567

Categorization

• QUESTION: Anidjar frames the shift as ‘painful’ and ‘momentary’ — worth tracking why this linguistic detour troubles the Jew/Arab genealogical argument.