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Correspondence of Yiddish Linguists Hartog Beem (1892-1987), Solomon A. Birnbaum (1891-1989), Jechiel Bin-Nun (1911-1983), Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg (1898-1989)


with Dovid Katz (1970s and 1980s)

PAGE INITIATED JANUARY 2024

Contents:

Hartog Beem

Jechiel Bin-Nun (Fischer)

Solomon A. Birnbaum

Florence Guggenheim

Hartog Beem

1892—1987
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HB (Hilversum) to DK (Brooklyn) (30 Dec 1977)

HB (Hilversum) to DK (Brooklyn) (9 Feb. 1978)

HB (Haifa) to DK (London) (15 June 1978)

HB (Hilversum) to DK (Brooklyn) (24 Aug. 1978)

HB (Hilversum) to DK (Brooklyn) (2 Sept. 1978)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (28 March 1979)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (3 May 1979)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (30 Aug. 1979)

HB (Haifa) to DK (London) (14 Sept. 1979)

HB (Haifa) to Menke Katz (Brooklyn) (27 Sept 1979)

DK (London) to HB (Haifa) (4 Oct. 1979)

HB (Haifa) to DK (London) (7 Nov. 1979)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (17 Dec 1979)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (6 May 1980)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (9 June 1980)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (7 Sept. 1980)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (1 Jan. 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (12 Jan. 1981)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (22 Feb. 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (25 Feb. 1981)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (1 March 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (26 March 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (31 March 1981)

DK (London) to HB (The Hague) (22 April 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (10 May 1981)

HB (The Hague) to DK (London) (25 May 1981)

DK (Oxford) to HB (The Hague) (26 June 1981)

DK (Oxford) to HB (The Hague) 7 March 1982)

From our working papers over the years: HB’s replies to DK’s lists of queries

Joel Cahen (Amsterdam) to DP and DK (Oxford) (1 Dec. 1987) [telegram on Beem’s death]

Dov Noy’s appreciation of Hartog Beem’s contributions (1984)

Obituary by Marion Aptroot in Oksforder Yidish I (1990)

Dovid Katz’s paper on Netherlandic Yiddish vocalism (based largely on Beem’s work; 1978)

DK’s personal notes and memoir (2024)

Jechiel Bin-Nun

(Jechiel Fischer; Yekhiel Fisher)

1911—1983
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Three of the papers he sent after the war to Yivo in New York for publication:

The e Sounds in Yiddish

The Sounds in Yiddish

Phonetic Transcriptional Systems

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JBN to DK (5 Feb. 1978)

JBN to DK (8 May 1978)

JBN to DK (31 August 1978)

DK to JBN (11 Feb. 1979)

JBN to DK (12 March 1979)

DK to JBN (11 May 1979)

JBN to DK (10 July 1979)

DK to JBN (1 Jan. 1981)

JBN to DK (20 Jan. 1981)

DK’s personal notes and memoir

Solomon A. Birnbaum

(Salomo Birnbaum; Shloyme Birnboym)

1891—1989
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SAB to DK (twelve letters, 1979-1986) [from: Oxford Yiddish III (1995), pp. 937-962]

DK to SAB [unsent] (1976)

SAB’s MS on Soviet Yiddish submitted to Soviet Jewish Affairs

DK replies to SJA editor L. Hirszowicz on queries on MS (15 February 1977)

JRUL to DK (4 April 1979)

DK to SAB (14 Aug. 1979)

SAB to DK (18 Sept. 1979)

DK to SAB (10 Oct. 1979)

SAB to DK (5. Nov. 1979)

DK to SAB (12 Dec. 1979)

DK to SAB (28 Dec. 1979)

SAB to DK (31 Jan. 1980)

DK to SAB (20 April 1980)

DK to SAB (24 April 1980)

SAB to DK (25 July 1980)

DK to SAB (17 Aug. 1980)

DK to SAB (1 Jan. 1981)

SAB to DK (12 July 1981)

DK to SAB (8 Aug. 1981)

Notice of SAB’s 90th birthday (Toronto, 13 Dec. 1981)

DK to SAB (Dec. 1981 [telegram])

DK to SAB (24 Dec. 1981)

SAB to DK (23 May 1982)

SAB to Hugh Denman (20 July 1982)

SAB’s list of writings sent to DK (1983)

DK to SAB (3 March 1984)

DK to SAB (18 Jan. 1985)

SAB to DK (28 April 1985)

DK to SAB (9 May 1985)

DK to SAB (7 Oct. 1985)

SAB to DK (15 Oct. 1985)

DK to SAB (27 Oct. 1985)

DK to SAB (1 Nov. 1985)

SAB’s paper ‘Old Yiddish Manuscripts’ for the Winter Symposium (Autumn 1985)

SAB to DK (20 Nov. 1985)

DK to SAB (29 Nov. 1985)

SAB to DK (10 Dec. 1985)

SAB’s text for telegram to first Oxford Winter Symposium on Yiddish (Dec. 1985)

DK/CH/DBK to SAB (23 Dec. 1985)

SAB to DK (26 Jan. 1986)

SAB to DK (26 Feb. 1986)

DK to SAB (3 April 1986)

SAB to DK (8 June 1986)

SAB to DK (12 Feb. 1987)

DK to SAB (10 April 1987)

DK/DBK to SAB (11 Dec. 1987 [telegram])

YL Arbeitman to SAB (6 June 1988)

Oxford Program in Yiddish papers (in the Birnbaum papers)

Obituary by Dovid Katz in Oksforder Yidish II (1991)

New York Times obituary for SAB (4 Jan. 1990)

DK’s notes and short memoir on the letters

Note: Letters from SAB are from DK’s archive. DK’s letters in SAB’s archive were kindly photocopied and sent in 1999 by his son Dr. David Birnbaum of Toronto, with thanks to Vivian Felsen for enabling the introductions that resulted in assembling the above archive.

Florence Guggenheim

(Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg)

1898—1989
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FG to DK (4 Oct. 1979)

DK to FG (16 Dec. 1979)

FG to DK (30 Dec. 1979)

DK to FG (25 Feb. 1980)

DK to FG (20 April 1980)

DK to FG (30 April 1980)

DK to FG (16 June 1980)

RW to DK (17 Aug. 1980)

DK to RW (4 Sept. 1980)

RW to DK (17 Sept. 1980)

DK to FG (1 Jan. 1981)

FG to DK (21 Jan. 1981)

DK to FG (1 March 1981)

DK to FG (17 Jan. 1985)

Obituary by Johannes Brosi in Oksforder Yidish I (1990)

DK’s notes

 

 

 

 

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Defending the History of: Yiddish at Oxford



OPINION  |  YIDDISH AFFAIRS

Under the leadership of the visionary founder of modern Jewish studies at Oxford University, Dr. David Patterson (1922–2005), the academic research and teaching institution which he created became for around two decades a major world center of Yiddish studies. That institution was the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (since renamed the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies). Indeed, it was Yiddish in the last quarter of the twentieth century that catapulted the Centre from just another sleepy Hebrew studies unit to a world-class center in advanced studies, including successful doctoral programs that provided a generation of (today’s) professors, and seminal publications in English and Yiddish that will be there for centuries to come. The kind of thing that the current twenty-first century incarnation of the same institution might well look back on with pride and even some nostalgia.

Among today’s scholars, educators, authors and personalities in the wider arts who were attracted to come and study Yiddish by our team, enabled at each stage by Dr. Patterson (in an array of settings ranging from weekly classes through summer courses to doctoral programs) at the Centre between the 1970s and 1990s are Prof. Marion Aptroot, Dr. Helen Beer, Prof. James Dingley, Prof. Jennifer Dowling, Prof. Gennady Estraikh, Mr. Elliot Gertel, Prof. Christopher Hutton, Dr. Devra Kay, Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler, Ms. Miri Koral, Dr. Holger Nath, Prof. Ritchie Robertson, Ms. Elinor Robinson, Mr. David Schneider, Prof. Robert Moses Shapiro, Prof. Astrid Starck, Dr. Heather Valencia, Prof. Nina Warnke, Mr. Tim Whewell, among many others. The first BA option in Yiddish was introduced at Oxford University (Faculty of Modern Languages) in 1982, and the doctoral program was inaugurated in 1984. After some years it was awarded a citation of excellence by the Modern Languages Faculty, signed by its then head. These were all achievements of historic order for the small, fragile and frankly still struggling academic field of Yiddish.

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