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Keywords: academia; academics; activism; air pollution; career and professional life; education; environmentalism; gender studies; genocide; historian; Holocaust memory; Institute of National Remembrance; IPN; Kraków, Poland; national memory; translation; translators; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; yizkor books

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Keywords: future of Yiddish; Israel; Jewish studies; Yiddish culture; Yiddish future; Yiddish in academia; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies

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