* Marvin Herzog ( born 1927 ), Yiddish linguist, professor at Columbia University

YIVO was initially proposed by Yiddish linguist and writer Nochum Shtif ( 1879 – 1933 ).

Max Weinreich ( 22 April 1894, Kuldīga, Russian Empire, now Latvia – 29 January 1969, New York City, USA ) was a linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.

* Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum

YIVO was initially proposed by Yiddish linguist and writer Nochum Shtif ( 1879 – 1933 ).

* Volf Moskovich ( b. 1936 ), linguist and Yiddish lexicographer

Solomon Birnbaum, also Salomo, Solomon A or Solomon Asher, ( December 24, 1891, Vienna – December 28, 1989, Toronto ) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew paleographer.

According to linguist Ghil ' ad Zuckermann, the Hebrew existential construction employed to mark possession was reinterpreted in " Israeli " ( his term for " Modern Hebrew ") to fit in with the " habere " ( to have ) construction, requiring the direct object, which is predominant in Yiddish and other European languages such as English ( in " I have this book ", " this book " is the direct object of " have ").

Such views are in contrast with Max Weinreich's theories, who argued that the Slavic loanwords were assimilated only after the Yiddish was already fully formed.

In 1925, he founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research ( originally called the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut — Yiddish Scientific Institute ) in his apartment in Vilnius, and was its director from 1925 to 1939 .< Ref > YIVO: Max Weinreich </ Ref >

She would remain in Yiddish theater for the rest of her life, following Goldfaden and Goldstein to Bucharest, Odessa ( where she would star at the Mariinsky Theater in 1881 ) and through Imperial Russia until Yiddish theater was banned in Russia in 1883, then playing in Galicia, in Berlin, and in other locations in Germany, and then back to Romania, where she settled for a while with a theater company in Iaşi where, after Sokher Goldstein's death ( of tuberculosis, according to Rosenfeld ) she married another actor, Max Karp ; her great fame as a prima donna was achieved as Sophia Karp.

Beginning in 1904, he had great success with the more naturalistic reportoire of Jacob Gordin ; in 1906 he played in one of the many Yiddish productions of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta, before heading to New York City, where he performed with Jacob Adler, Boris Thomashefsky, Max Morrison, and others.

Hillquit argued cases on behalf of a number of important radical publications, including Max Eastman's radical artistic and literary magazine, The Masses ; the two socialist dailies — the New York Call and the Milwaukee Leader ; the SP's official weekly, The American Socialist ; the popular monthly Pearson's Magazine ; and the Yiddish language Jewish Daily Forward.

A new complete English-language edition of Max Weinreich's classic book History of the Yiddish Language in two volumes, edited by Dr. Paul ( Hershl ) Glasser, has just been published.

The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures.

This statement is commonly attributed to one of the leading figures in modern Yiddish linguistics, Max Weinreich, who expressed it in Yiddish:

This is a toponymic rejective phono-semantic matching of Polish Radom, the name of a town in Poland ( approximately 100 km south of Warsaw ), or of its Yiddish adaptation ródem ( see Uriel Weinreich 1955: 609, Paul Wexler 1991: 42 ).

Weinreich exemplified the diasystemic approach by a forumulaic arrangement of phoneme correspondences in three dialects of Yiddish, focusing on the vowels but arguing that the principle could work for other aspects of language.

In a tribute by Dovid Katz, " Though he lived less than forty-one years, Uriel Weinreich ... managed to facilitate the teaching of Yiddish language at American universities, build a new Yiddish language atlas, and demonstrate the importance of Yiddish for the science of linguistics.

* Say It In Yiddish: A Phrase Book for Travelers ( with Beatrice Weinreich ).

Weinreich became a professor of Yiddish at City College and re-established YIVO in New York.

Weinreich translated Sigmund Freud and Ernst Toller into Yiddish.

The sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Joshua Fishman suggested that he might have been the auditor at the Weinreich lecture, and has subsequently been cited as the originator of the army-navy statement in several references.

Weinreich observed that the phrase is a " wonderful expression of the social plight of Yiddish ".

He joined a Yiddish poetry group, Jung Vilna, and in 1933, published a volume of Yiddish poems, Der Shem Hamefoyrosh: Mentsch, dedicated to his father.

In 1879, Zamenhof wrote the first grammar of the Yiddish language, which he published in part years later in the Yiddish magazine Lebn un visnshaft.

* Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.

Early formal organizations run by converted Jews include: the Anglican London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews of Joseph Frey ( 1809 ), which published the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821 ; the " Beni Abraham " association, established by Frey in 1813 with a group of 41 Jewish Christians who started meeting at Jews ' Chapel, London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning ; and the London Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain founded by Dr. Carl Schwartz in 1866.

Tevye the Dairyman (, Yiddish: טב ֿ יה דער מילכיקער Tevye der milkhiker, Hebrew: טוביה החולב ) is the protagonist of several of Sholem Aleichem's stories, originally written in Yiddish and first published in 1894.

; 1534: First Yiddish book published, in Poland.

* Aleksander Zederbaum ( 1816 – 1893 )-was a Polish-Russian Jewish journalist, founder and editor of Ha-Meliẓ, and other periodicals published in Russian and Yiddish.

As of 2008, The Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English editions.

** Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.

Kampf un kempfer-a Yiddish pamphlet published by the PSR exile branch in London 1904.

In all, the Arbeter Fraint published twenty-five essays by Rocker on the topic, the first ever critical examination of Marxism in Yiddish, according to William J. Fishman.

In 1927, Moshe Nadir ( 1885-1943 ) published his Yiddish version, " Der Rebe Elimeylekh.

While the tradition of journalism in Yiddish had a bit more of a history than in Hebrew, Kol Mevasser, which he supported from the outset and where he published his first Yiddish story " Dos Kleine Menshele " (" The Little Man ") in 1863, is generally seen as the first stable and important Yiddish newspaper.

His book was translated and published in Yiddish.

Between 1911-1939 two Yiddish weeklies were published in the town, and a Jewish highschool was founded during the First World War.

Four Yiddish newspapers were published there between the two world wars.

Most of these stories have become well-known thanks to storytellers and writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer in the Yiddish language, who wrote The Fools of Chelm and Their History ( published in English translation in 1973 ), аnd the great Soviet Yiddish poet Ovsey Driz who wrote stories in verse.

Although Turkov said he would return the manuscript, Wiesel writes that he did not see it again, but later in Rivers, he explains that he " cut down the original manuscript from 862 pages to the 245 of the published Yiddish edition.