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



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

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.

(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)


45 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

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.

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Meir Shub (1924 — 2009)



 

Professor Meir Shub

Holocaust in the Baltics, established on 6 September 2009, is dedicated to the memory of Professor Meir  Shub (1924—2009), pictured at right teaching a class at Vilnius University in the early 2000s.

A historian and philosopher, he dedicated the last decades  of his life to rebuilding Jewish studies in Vilnius, despite severe health issues deriving from his World War II wounds sustained as a Red Army soldier during the struggle against Nazism.

He was determined to inspire and train students of all backgrounds who would freely research Judaic topics, including the Holocaust. He was convinced that the success of these studies depended on the retention of a robust and intellectually free-feeling Jewish community component in such projects in Eastern Europe.

Meir Shub’s booming voice (which grew louder as his deafness worsened), straight talk, and high Litvak expectations of his students were trademarks. He is sorely missed. He played a pivotal role in achieving the first Oxford-Vilnius agreement in Judaic studies, and, in 1991-1992, was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. His works include a study of the Gaon of Vilna.

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