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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 native German speaker from the northwestern part of the Russian Empire (today’s southwestern Latvia), Weinreich (1894–1969) was drawn as an adolescent to Yiddish and the Jewish socialist party, the Bund. His literary activity began with journalism in German, Russian, and Yiddish and translations of classic works of Greek literature into Yiddish.
