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Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History

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Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves in Central Europe have spoken Rotwelsch, a secret language influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs.

When Martin Puchner inherited a family archive, it led him on a journey into this extraordinary language but also into his family's connections to the Nazi Party, for whom Rotwelsch held a particular significance.

A riveting story of the mindset and milieu of Central Europe and of the way language can be used to evade oppression, The Language of Thieves is also a deeply moving reckoning with a family's buried past.

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Product Details
Granta Books
1783786426 / 9781783786428
eBook (EPUB)
437.09
07/01/2021
English
288 pages
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