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Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a ...
Author. (1894–1969), Yiddish linguist, literary scholar, and public intellectual. Born in Kuldiga, Latvia (then in Russia; Ger., Goldingen), Max Weinreich grew up in a German-speaking home and first took an interest in Yiddish as a teenager. His native region, Courland, had a large German population as well as a significant number of ...
Max Weinreich. About me. I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, working at the intersection of dynamical systems, algebraic geometry, and number theory. I received my Ph. D. from Brown University in May 2022, advised by Joe Silverman . Pronouns: he/him. Contact Info. Email: mweinreich [at] math [dot] harvard [dot] edu. About my math
Max Weinreich was a Yiddish linguist, historian, editor. Born in Kuldiga ( Latvia ), Weinreich made his debut as a Yiddish writer at the age of 13, and became a contributor to various Yiddish, Russian, German, and later English publications.
Jan 27, 2023 · The Legend of Max Weinreich. The Jewish linguist hoped to make prewar Vilna into a secular Ashkenazi Jerusalem. Instead he became the greatest historian of Yiddish from his exile in New York. by....
Jan 1, 2008 · Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present.
A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Max Weinreich, a prominent Yiddishist scholar and leader of YIVO. Learn about his contributions to Yiddish language, culture, and Jewish sociology, as well as his biography and legacy.
