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Oxford Books and Magazines Published Entirely in Yiddish (1990-1998)

Posted on 22 November 2024 by Defending History

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49 publications in Yiddish scholarship, stylistics, and literature coming out of 1990s Oxford

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ENGLISH BONUSES: Vols. 1 and 2 of the Winter Studies in Yiddish series: Origins of the Yiddish Language (1987) and Dialects of the Yiddish Language (1988); 1980s OCPHS (/OCHJS) annual reports; 1980s Stencl lectures; first edition of Dovid Katz’s Grammar of the Yiddish Language.

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(IN PROGRESS. UPDATED: 17 JULY 2025; ADDITIONAL LINKS & CORRECTIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: WITH THANKS TO DAN RABINOWITZ & MENACHEM BUTLER FOR INSPIRING THESE SCANNINGS AND UPLOADS.

See also:

Keepsakes of Yiddish at Oxford (1978-1996)

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45 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

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Oxford Yiddish (Oksforder Yidish)

Collective volumes for academic studies in Yiddish linguistics, literary history and folklore

(vols. 1-3, 1990–1995)

Volume 1 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1990, 401 + xi pp). English title and contents pp. Invitation to London book launch.

Volume 2 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1991, 313 + xi pp). English title and contents pp.

Volume 3 (Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; 2nd print: Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, 1995, 984 columns folio + xvi pp). English title and contents pp.

Posted in Yiddish Affairs, Yiddish at Oxford | Tagged Benjamin Harshav, Boris Karloff, Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz, Gennady Estraikh, Gershon Winer, H.Binyomin, Heershadovid Menkes, Joseph Bar-El, Meir Shub, MENKE KATZ, Moshe Steingart, Oksforder Yidish Press, Oxford Yiddish Press, Three Sisters Press, Three Sisters Press (Yiddish), Yiddish at Oxford, Yoni Fain, Yonia Fain | Comments Off

Kerler’s 9 August Lecture on “Yiddish: A Language in Contact Within and Without” Open to Public

Posted on 6 August 2017 by Defending History

VILNIUS—Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, deeply involved in the 2010 purge of Vilnius Yiddish Institute staff (including his own former doctoral supervisor at Oxford) for having disagreed with some Lithuanian government policies on the Holocaust, and in an alleged ongoing effort to obfuscate the history of Yiddish studies at Oxford and Vilnius, will be lecturing this Wednesday, 9 August 2017, at the new Judaica Research Center at Lithuania’s National Library in Vilnius. He is the head of the leading American Yiddish graduate studies program, that currently produces more Yiddish Studies doctorates than any other, at the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University at Bloomington. The topic of the lecture is “Yiddish: A Language in Contact Within and Without” on which Prof. Kerler has carried out pioneering research for decades. The event is open to the public free of charge. The lecture is underwritten by the government’s Ministry of Culture. More details are available on the Center’s Facebook page. Professor Kerler is also a specialist on Ethics in Yiddish Studies. He was honored for his efforts by a popular t-shirt in Lithuania.

Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, Bloomington-Borns Program Manipulated?, Yiddish Affairs | Tagged Boris Karloff, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Dov-Ber Kerler, Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies, Jewish Studies Indiana University Bloomington, Yiddish at Bloomington | Comments Off

Documents from a Curious History of a Yiddish Professorship at Vilnius University

Posted on 2 April 2015 by Defending History

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Tagged Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies, Bloomington Borns Jewish Studies, Boris Karloff, Borns Jewish Studies, Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz + Vilnius University, Dr. Maria Krupoves, Fairbank, FM3 (Los Angeles), Grant Gochin, History Faculty of Vilnius University, Judaicvilnius.com, Maslin, Maullin, Professor Alfredas Bumblauskas, Professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University, Professor Sidney Rosenfeld, Richard Maullin, Sarunas Liekis, Vilniaus institutas, Vilniaus jidis institutas, Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius Yiddish Professor S. Liekis, Western academic values at Vilnius University, Yerusholaymer Almanakh, Yiddish in Vilnius, Yiddish Studies at Vilnius, Yiddish summer program in Vilnius | Comments Off

Holocaust Revisionists Successfully Manipulate Borns Jewish Studies Program (Indiana U, Bloomington); Vilnius Yiddish Institute is Purged with ‘a little help from Bloomington’

Posted on 9 September 2010 by Defending History

After authoring the book on Litvak culture for the Lithuanian section at the February 2009 Jerusalem Book Fair, the editor of this website who is the founding professor of Yiddish at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, declined to attend to chair the Yiddish culture session, when he was told not to bring to the fair Dr. Rachel Margolis, resident in Rechovot. Dr. Margolis is one of the heroic Jewish partisans defamed by the Double Genocide industry.

Sarunas Liekis and Dov-Ber Kerler (Jerusalem, Feb 2009)

Is the master J-handler keeping an eye? Prof. Sarunas Liekis (left) and Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler at the Jerusalem Book Fair.

The Lithuanian government unit running these affairs rapidly replaced him with Dov-Ber Kerler, the Alice Field Cohen professor at the Borns Jewish Studies program at Indiana University (Bloomington), who did not have time to keep a promise to visit with Dr. Rachel Margolis in Rechovot, as a symbol of moral support for the accused Holocaust Survivors. The complete program of events paid for by the Lithuanian government is here (but note that contrary to the published-for-PR schedule, Yitzhak Arad did not — as a matter of principle — appear at the event).

Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Bloomington-Borns Program Manipulated?, Double Games, News & Views, Richard Maullin, United States, Views of Prof. Sarunas Liekis, Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Yiddish Affairs, Yitzhak Arad | Tagged AHEYM, Alice Field Cohen chair, Anti-Semitism Studies Bloomington, Antisemitism Institute Bloomington, Anya Kerler, Bloomington Indiana Judaic Studies, Boris Karloff, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Dov-Ber Kerler, Friends of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Kerler, Judaic Studies Bloomington, Judaicvilnius.com, Liekis + Kerler, Rachel Margolis, Richard Maullin, Sarunas Liekis, Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius Yiddish Summer Program, Yerusholaymer Almanakh, Yiddish Studies Bloomington | Comments Off

Dissenting Academic Rapidly Replaced with Foreign Stand-in at the Jerusalem Book Fair; Dr Rachel Margolis Betrayed Again

Posted on 1 February 2009 by Defending History

After authoring the book on Litvak culture for the Lithuanian section at the Jerusalem Book Fair, the editor of this website declined to attend to chair the Yiddish culture session, when he was asked not to bring to the fair Dr Rachel Margolis, resident in Rechovot; she is one of the heroic Jewish partisans defamed by the Double Genocide industry.

The Lithuanian government unit running these affairs rapidly replaced him with the Yiddish professor from the Borns Jewish Studies program at Indiana University (Bloomington).

The ‘Book Fair Affair’ was widely reported. See: Haaretz: ‘When Lithuania was Yiddishland’ by Raphael Ahren; also: comments by Milan Chersonski, editor of the Jewish community’s periodical, Jerusalem of Lithuania: ‘It’s not just about the Jerusalem Book Fair’ (Jan-March 2009); May 2010 update on Dr Margolis’s situation here.

More details here on the ‘Book Fair Affair’ and the further cooperation of the Borns Jewish Studies program with the nationalist establishment in Vilnius.

UPDATES TO JUNE 2011 SEE HERE

Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Dr. Rokhl (Rachel) Margolis (1921-2015), Free Speech & Democracy, Human Rights, News & Views, Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Yiddish Affairs | Tagged AHEYM, Alice Field Cohen chair, Boris Karloff, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Jerusalem Book Fair 2009, Rachel Margolis | Comments Off

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