A collection of materials related to the research project of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (L.C.A.A.J./LCAAJ) produced from 1949 to 1997. The project was spearheaded by Columbia University's Yiddish department and the primary researchers involved in the project were Uriel Weinreich, Marvin (Mikhl) Herzog, Mordkhe Schaechter, Vera Baviskar, Robert Neumann, and Ulrike Kiefer. The materials include administrative records, fieldwork and research notes, materials relating to the publication of the second and third volume of the Atlas, as well as other research materials of Uriel Weinreich, and materials related to the publication of The Field of Yiddish. The materials are primarily in English, Yiddish and German.
U. Weinreich "Roshey-prokim fun a deskriptiver yidisher dialetkologye mit a provisorishn struktureln un leksikalishn indeks tsum yidishn shprakh- un kultur-atlas. Ershter Teyl: Fonologye" (2 versions: 70 pp, 40pp)
The papers comprise correspondence, writings, memoirs, personal documents, research notes, printed materials, photographs of Iurii Shevel'ov, prominent scholar, Slavic linguist, philologist, literary historian, and literary critic, longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University.
The collection itself consists of 9 metal plate discs with phonetics recordings of grad students, professors, and the aforementioned businessmen and date between 1938 and 1939 with the exception of one which claims to be from 1959.
The Marvin Herzog collection contains correspondence relating to Herzog's academic and personal life, including printouts from an email list devoted to Yiddish Studies. Also included is teaching and research materials, as well as materials relating to Herzog's work on the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and various materials relating to Zionist summer camps.
Structural Dialectology Possible?"; typescript of papers by UW; letter to Dov Sadan and manuscript of paper
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materials on Alsatian Yiddish and typescript with maps (by UW?) and offprint of article "Is a Structural Dialectology Possible?"; typescript of papers by UW; letter to Dov Sadan and manuscript of paper by UW in Hebrew (World Jewish Congress 1961); typescript "dos ashkenazishe hebrewish und dos hebreish vos in yidish: zeyer geografishe zayt" by UW; notes on "dinamik fun der yidisher dialktn-sistem" by UW; maps; syllabus "The Linguistic Geography of Yiddish" by UW
Perspectives"; manuscript "Bilingual Dialectolog"; typescript "Roots and Routes: Aspects of the History and
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conference program "Looking Back, Looking Forward" in memory of Dr. Shlomo Noble at Ohio State University; handout (?) from Moshe Taube "The Evolution of the Stem Construction in Yiddish" at YIVO Conference; program of 37th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers Volume II "haGeografia haLashonit bSrut (?) Toldot haTishvot haYehudim baUkraina" by Herzog; abstract and paper "Language Geography as an Aid to Historical Research with Special Reference to Jewish Settlement in the Ukraine" by Herzog; typescript "From Dialect Geography to Relative Chronology: The Evidence of Yiddish Isoglosses" by Herzog; agenda and typescript of speech for visit of state secretary Dr. Wolfgang Lieb at Columbia University (German) and manuscript of MH's speech; handout from lecture by Paul Wexler "Yiddish: The 15th Slavic Language"; typescript "Yiddish Language Geography: New Perspectives"; manuscript "Bilingual Dialectolog"; typescript "Roots and Routes: Aspects of the History and Geography of Yiddish"; conference paper "Freud and Yiddish" by Andrew Sunshine; typescript of lecture on Judeo-Provencal by George Jochnowitz; typescript "der semitisher kheylek in yidish" by Dovid Katz; lecture at Toledo with bibliography; conference paper by Hugh Denman; CfP "Ashkenaz Theory and Nation" and correspondence between Alexis Manaster Ramer and David Neal Miller