Marvin I. Herzog papers, 1942-2008

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Series II: Teaching, 1953-1996



Box 4 Folder 1 Cohn, Rella, 1961-1962; 1965; 1973

MA thesis "Patterns and Correlations in Hebrew and English Names" by Rella Cohn, University of Chicago


Box 4 Folder 2 Course "Hebrew-Aramaic Component", 1958-1959; 1977

teaching materials and other notes on "Hebrew-Aramaic component"; offprint "metanaliz fun hebreishe antleyungen in yidish" by Moyshe Altbauer; seminar paper "The Morphology of the Hebrew Component of Yiddish" by MH; seminar paper "Aramaic and the Aramaic Component of Hebrew"; some material by Uriel Weinreich


Box 4 Folder 3 Course "Yiddish Phonology", 1973; 1977; 1979

teaching materials and other notes on "Yiddish Phonology"; senior thesis "Tsures or a Systematic Analysis of Stress Assignment in Yiddish"


Box 4 Folder 4 Course "Jewish Languages", 1964; 1975

notes, copies, manuscript and other material on Jewish Languages; AJS conference program; material from Judezmo Society (David Bunis); untitled seminar paper


Box 4 Folder 5 Course "Translation Tradition", 1953; 1966; 1968; 1973

notes, copies, manuscript and other materials on 'Translation Tradition' (UW and MH's hand); seminar paper "Mendel Satanovers Translations of the Hagiographa" by Eugene Orenstein;seminar paper; offprint "Mendeles Tehilim-iberzetsungen"


Box 4 Folder 6 Course "Yiddish and Hebrew Functional Variation", 1965; 1985

teachng materials and lecture notes on course "Yiddish and Hebrew: Functional Variation"


Box 4 Folder 7 Course "Yiddish Verbs", 1962; 1977; 1983

teaching materials and other notes on "Yiddish Verbs"; some notes in UW's hand


Box 4 Folder 8 Dissertations, 1999

typescript of Holger Nath's dissertation



Box 5 Folder 1 Nath, Holger, 1990-1993

correspondence with Holger Nath, Columbia University, Mikhl Herzog and Michael Stanislawski; letters of recommendation to Memorial Foundation; sample chapters and other drafts


Box 5 Folder 2 Nath, Holger: Memorial Foundation, 1990

application to doctoral fellowship from the Memorial foundation (project description; introduction; application form)


Box 5 Folder 3 Nath, Holger: Dissertation proposal, 1990-1991

dissertation proposal with comments by Rakhmiel Peltz and Mikhl Herzog; correspondence


Box 5 Folder 4 Nath, Holger, 1996

letter and dissertation draft from Holger Nath


Box 5 Folder 5 Nydorf, Charles, 1987-1993

correspondence with Charles Nydorf; correspondence between Elinor Robinson and Rakhmiel Peltz; letters from Michael Stanislawski; dissertation proposals by Charles Nydorf



Box 6 Folder 1 Robinson, Elinor, 1988-1990

dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Benjamin Harshav; Austerlitz; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; letter of recommendation to Memorial Foundation


Box 6 Folder 2 Robinson, Elinor, 1991

dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett


Box 6 Folder 3 Robinson, Elinor, 1992-1993

dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett


Box 6 Folder 4 Robinson, Elinor, undated

typescript dissertation chapter 2; maps; two other notes


Box 6 Folder 5 Seminar papers and conference papers, 1971-1972; 1980; 1983; 1985

"Negation in Yiddish" by Chris Hutton; "Towards and Assessment of the Education of Women in Traditional Ashkenaz" by Jeffrey Shandler; "The Phonology of the Germanic Component of the Brantshpigl" by Paul Glasser; "A linguistic Analysis of the Mayse-bukh" by Laurence Lang; "Bove-bukh and Bueve de Hantone" by Laurence Lang; "The Boundaries of Description and Prescription as a Topic for Yiddish Linguistics" by Chris Hutton; "Some Aspects of Western Yiddish" by Cordula Mathias; "Western Yiddish Proto-Vowels" by Jaimes Haines; "The System of Yiddish Protovowels reconsidered" by James Haines; s"The Slavic Component in Yiddish" by Susan Slotnick; "A History of the Yiddish Preterite" by Jaimes Haines; "The Use of the Preterite in Glikl Hamel's Diary" by James Haines


Box 6 Folder 6 Teaching material, 1955-1956; 1961-1965; 1973

notes for class Yiddish 223 (?) on the history of the Yiddish language by Uriel Weinreich; letter to Uriel Weinreich; materials for seminar "Linguistic Geography" with maps, notes and bibliography; typescript for "Reading List in Linguistics" at Columbia University; materials on seminar "Megiles Vintz"; brochure "Yididsh Studies at Columbia University"