Marvin I. Herzog papers, 1942-2008

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Series V: Research, 1950-2007, undated



Box 9 Folder 1 A. Priblude, 1962; 1973-1974

bibliography on A. Priblude; copies of bilbiographic notecards and other bibliographical items; copies of Sovetish Heymalnd; copies from the Yiddish press of articles by A. Priblude; copy of publication "Foreign Versions of English Names" from the DoJ; other copies of articles pertaining to Jewish family names


Box 9 Folder 2 Artushof, 1953; 1985; undated

copy of "vegn dem Artushof" by Maks Erik; typescript "der artur-roman" from L. Landau and handwritten notes; NEH application, appendix I and II, and statement of computer use by Robert Warnock for "Editions and Studies of the Old Yiddish Epic of King Arthur's Court"; copies of Artus manuscripts; copy of Landau "Arthurian Legends" in German


Box 9 Folder 3 Biographisches Erzaehlen auf Jiddisch 1, 1996-1997

correspondence with Robert Neumann, Ulrieke Kiefer and Max Niemeyer Verlag regarding publication of Gertrud Reeshemius "Biographisches Erzaehlen auf Jiddisch"; offprint of the book manuscript; letter from Gertrud Reeshemius


Box 9 Folder 4 Biographisches Erzaehlen auf Jiddisch 2, 1996-1997


Box 9 Folder 5 Biographisches Erzaehlen auf Jiddisch 3, 1996-1997



Box 10 Folder 1 Conferences and public lectures, 1962; 1968; 1976; 1979; 1987; 1989-1990; 1995; 1997-1998; 2005

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


Box 10 Folder 2 Copies and print matter 1, 1976; 1978; 1997; 1999

photocopy of article by Joshua Fishman on Yiddish; copies from books by Solomon Birnbaum with post-it from his son David; copy of chapter "Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech" by Michael Sweet; copy of article on Solomon Birnbaum by Hugh Denman (Hebrew); article on LCAAJ by Robert Neumann; copy of paper "Soviet Jewish Folkloristics and Ethnography" from YIVO; copy of "Hebraica and Judaica an der Staatlichen Bibliothek Ansbach"; copy of maps from "Jews of Central Europe Between the World Wars"; copy of "Family Tree of H. M. Rosenberg and his wife Eleone, nee Guenzburg, Kiev"; copy of Dovid Katz's introduction to Harkavy's dictonary; copy of article "If I were King of the Jews: Germanistik and the Judaistikfrage" by Neil Jacobs and Dagmar Lorenz


Box 10 Folder 3 Copies and print matter 2, 1991; 1993

article "The Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference (1908) " by Hyman Bass; copy of Yidishe Shprakh and lexicon article on Veynger; papers by Tjeerd de Graaf; copy of text by H. Leivick; book review of LCAAJ vol. III; copy of article "Judeo-Italian Lexical Items Collected by Zalman Yovely" by George Jochnowitz; copy of article "Religion and Taboo in Lason Akodesh (Judeo-Piedmontese)" by George Jochnowitz


Box 10 Folder 4 Defining the Jewish Race 1, undated

Defining the Jewish Race (dissertation typescript) by John Maurice Efron



Box 11 Folder 1 Defining the Jewish Race 2, undated


Box 11 Folder 2 Defining the Jewish Race 3, undated


Box 11 Folder 3 DFG application, 1998

funding application with the DFG for edition of Solomon Birnbaum's linguistic papers (German); The Nathan & Solomon Birnbaum Archives "Strategies for Birnbaum Nachlass"


Box 11 Folder 4 Historische Lautgeographie des gesamtbairischen Dialektraumes (STORAGE?), undated

Eberhard Kranzmayer: Laut- und Hilfskarten zur "Historischen Lautgeographie des gesamtbairischen Dialektraumes"


Box 11 Folder 5 Maps, undated


Box 11 Folder 6 Maps 2, undated



Box 12 Folder 1 Maps 3, undated


Box 12 Folder 2 Marvin Herzog's MA thesis, undated

typescript of MH's MA thesis "The Language of an 18th Century Yiddish Work in the Light of Present Day Yiddish: Markuze's Seyfer Refues"


Box 12 Folder 3 Miscellaneous, undated; 1967; 1987; 1995; 1997

notes; typescript "Normativism in Yiddish Linguistics" (one page); list of vulgar Yiddish proverbs in transcription; "Versions of Megiles-Vintz"; brochure "Ashkenazi Jewish Families" from Johns Hopkins; announcement for lecture in memory of Chone Shmeruk and bibliography on Chone Shmeruk; typescript "di lefaje" (Western Yiddish?); University of Marburg tourist brochures; printout of address book and calendar/schedule; copyright certificate for MH's The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland; photocopy of table of correspondences between numbered paragraphs of the translation of Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language; materials regarding Yiddish computer usage (program Vortnik by Leyzer Wolf);


Box 12 Folder 4 Papers, 1967; 1981; 1992; 1998; undated

student paper (?) with handwritten notes; untitled paper by Leyzer Wolf; letter from Agnes Romer Segal to Alan Huffman about Field of Yiddish and paper "Yiddish Works on Women's Commandments in the 16th Century"; paper "How our Great Grandmothers Prayed: An Examination of Yiddish Tkhines" by Zelda Kahan Newman; chapter by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on "Coming of Age in the Thirties: Max Weinreich, Edward Sapir, and the Study of Jewish Culture and Personality' sent to MH; typescript "Women's Names on the Tombstones of the Medieval Cemetery of Spandau (Berlin) and Their Historical Significance" by Yacov Guggenheim; typescript "di eltere yidishe leksikografye" by Dovid Katz


Box 12 Folder 5 Papers 2, 2007; undated

paper "inter-faith cooperation"; paper "notes of a fieldworker for the LCAAJ" by Rosaline Schwartz; papers by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Meyer Wolf (typescripts); typescript of "Origins and Evolution of the Yiddish Language" by MH; more maps



Box 13 Folder 1 Research, 1958; 1963 (?); 1964 (?); 1997; undated

notes on Weissberg J. "The Vowel System of MST-10 K22 Compared with MHG" from Journal of Jewish Studies; bibliography/list on "Genres of 'froyen-literatur'"; bibliography on Rudolf Roker; typescript "Slavic Element in Yiddish" (translation from Hungarian); Yiddish text in phonetic transcription (Western Yiddish?) about Purim; Maly Atlas Historyczny, Warsaw


Box 13 Folder 2 Uriel Weinreich, 1950; 1955-1956; 1961; 1965; undated

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


Box 13 Folder 3 Zelda Kahan-Newman, undated

typescript of "Talmudic Chant, Yididsh Intonation and the Origins of Early Ashkenaz"