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Yiddish Linguistics page (with bibliography of papers & books)
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Yiddish Cultural Dictionary for the 21st Century (updated daily). See also new experimental mobile edition. Sample notes linked here.
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LYVA: Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive
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What Went Wrong with Yiddish Normativism & Purism?
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Posting of Correspondence with Major 20th Century Yiddish Linguists
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Bible Translations into Lithuanian (Northeastern) Yiddish
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Responsa in Yiddish Linguistics
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Courses (+recommended dictionaries)
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Methodology in Yiddish Historical Linguistics
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Yiddish Mini-Museum of Jewish Life in Interwar Lithuania
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Yiddish Mini-Museum of Old Jewish Vilna
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Lítvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish
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SELECTION OF PAPERS & ARTICLES IN RECENT YEARS:
On extreme Yiddish purism, ausbauism and over-the-top normativism.
Notes in Yiddish Cultural Dictionary (YCD) on Ausbauism, kálye, kuleháy, máydem, shul vs. shúle, etc. For more such notes, please use the search box, keying in הערה for historical notes, and אזהרה for arguments in current Yiddish stylitics.
Chernowitz at 110 (keynote address at the August 2018 conference in Chernivtsi, Ukraine); Conference program; Keynote Lecture. Boris Sandler’s Yiddish report. Saul Chapnick’s English report. Photo gallery.
A Forgotten Yiddish Poem by Hirsh Glik (2018); Inseparable Threesome: Leyzer Ran, Vilna, and Yiddish (2017); On Yivo’s Ninetieth Birthday (2015); Chaim Nachman Shapiro’s 1935 Kovno Book (in Lithuanian) on Vilna Jewish Poetry (2015); The German Army Multilingual Projects in World War I Vilna (2015); Reconstructing the Stress Pattern of 19th Century Ashkenazic Hebrew in Vilna (2014); Freewheeling Deconstruction of Max Weinreich: Sensationalization of the Fragile Field of Yiddish (2014); Knáanic in the Medieval and Modern Yiddish Scholarly Imagination (2014); Vílno, Vílne, Vílna, Vílnius in Prewar Litvak Usage (2013); Jesus in Yiddish (2012).
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Linguistic Notes for the Virtual Mini-Museum of Old Jewish Vilna (2013-2016)
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Yiddish and Power (Palgrave MacMillan 2015)
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“Chapters in Yiddish” column in the Algemeiner Journal (2009-2010)
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Yiddish Names of Lithuanian Towns
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More: Academia.edu; Bibliography; on Lithuania