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Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich

American linguist
Max Weinreich was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary. Wikipedia
Born: April 22, 1894, Kuldīga, Latvia
Died: January 29, 1969 (age 74 years), New York, NY
Books: History of the Yiddish Language, Hitler's professors, The Classification of Jewish Immigrants and Its Implications, a Survey of Opinion: 140 Replies to a Questionnaire and Papers, and more
Children: Uriel Weinreich
Language: Yiddish