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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.
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Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of Andrew Sunshine.
Source of acquisition--Estate. Date of acquisition--2014. Accession number--2013-2014-M125.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/3/2013. Accession number--2013-2014-M108.
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Marvin Herzog (1927-2013) was a professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. After the untimely death of Professor Uriel Weinreich in 1967, he assumed directorship of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, and ultimately became Editor-in-Chief of its publication.
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Box 1 Folder 1
correspondence with Raul Alvarez-Pereyre; letter from Marion Aptroot; letters to Atran foundation from MH and Dean Bagnell; letter from MH to Jean Ashton regarding GDYL archives; email from student Sarah Benor; e-mail correspondence on "Yiddish Computerized Dictionary" from Leybl Botwinik; email from Abraham Brumberg; letter from Anna Maria Capri (University of Venice); correspondence with Gerald Cohen and copies of papers in Comments on Etymology; correspondence with Marcello da Verona; correspondence with Encyclopaedia Britannica regarding Yiddish bibliography; email from Jayanne English; letter from Sharon Flitterman-King; letter from Jerold Frakes
Box 1 Folder 2
correspondence with David Jost (Senior Lexicographer) of the American Heritage Dictionary and dictionary examples with Herzog's handwritten notes; payment for etymology work on dictionary
Box 1 Folder 3
email printouts on Ashkenazi History (Mendele) with typescript of "The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew" by Paul Wexler and one other copy
Box 1 Folder 4
correspondence with Delphine Bechtel and recommendation letter for her for MFJC
Box 1 Folder 5
email correspondence with Paul Glasser; correspondence with Lee Goldberg (Yiddish and English) and syllabus by Lee Goldberg; letter from Walter Goldschmidt; correspondence with Robert Gordis and attached paper "Yiddish in Israel"; correspondence from Ruth Greene; email correspondence with Robert Hoberman; correspondence with Sarah Jacobs regarding women's names including handwritten notes; copy of an article by George Jochnowitz; correspondence with Zelda Kahan-Newman and manuscript "The Notion of Topic and the Possibility of Discoursal Deep Structures"; correspondence with Elihu Katz; letter from Ellie Kellman with copies of obituatires for J. B. Salsberg; e-mail from Judith Klavans; correspondence Ane Klein and her advisor Erika Timm; Ane Klein's project proposal "Eastern Yiddish Phonetics" and copies of articles; letter from Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; copy of letter from Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett to Rakhmiel Peltz; correspondence with Testu Kohno; correspondence with student Vered Kopolovich; letter from Ewa Kurek; email corresondence with Adah Lappin; correspondence with Littauer Foundation; letters from William Lockwood and excerpts of his textbook for Yiddish; correspondence with Andreas Maislinger; correspondence with Kate Moore
Box 1 Folder 6
correspondence about Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language (letter from the NEH about GDYL; correspondence with Gershon Winer, Herbert Paper and Edward Stankiewicz)
Box 1 Folder 7
correspondence on genetic diseases (Mendele; newspaper clipping; with Prof. Vivian Moses; with Alexis Manaster Ramer; with Dr. Maria New; with Dr. Susan Harlap; other correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 8
email printouts on Hasidic Yiddish (Mendele);
Box 2 Folder 1
correspondence with Thomas Hubka (handwritten and typed); recommendation later for NEH for Thomas Hubka's project "The Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe: A Material and Cultural Study of the 18th Century Jewish Community"
Box 2 Folder 2
email correspondence about ICHL conference in Dusseldorf
Box 2 Folder 3
email correspondence with Steffen Krogh and typescript "Das Ostjiddische im Sprachkontakt";
Box 2 Folder 4
correspondence with Philologos / Hillel Halkin; clippings of Philologos columns in the Forward; email printouts about the name for the Yididsh language; emails from Meyer Wolf; printouts of Mendele correspondence regarding words for 'gay' in Yiddish and other topics; Mendele e-mails on Judaeo-Alsatian; email correspondence with Leyzer Wolf; other emails
Box 2 Folder 5
email printouts of Mendele listserv
Box 2 Folder 6
postcards; cards; obituaries; other correspondence; notes; clipping from Haaretz on Atlas (photocopy); letter to Bill; correspondence with Harvard regarding ad hoc committee for Yiddish chair (Ruth Wisse, Harshav); copy of letter from Sam Norich to Dr. Robert King; letter from David Gold to Professors Hall; letter to Merrill; letter to Bea Weinriech (from Prof. Wolfgang Viereck); MLA review of FoY faxed to David Goldberg; email from Mordkhe Schaechter
Box 2 Folder 7
correspondence with Max Niemeyer Verlag (attached copy of letter to Prof. Putschke from Niemeyer); correspondence with Sam Norich; copies of correspondence with YIVO (Samuel Norich) regarding establishment of the Center for Jewish History; correspondence with Rakhmiel Peltz and letter of recommendaton for him at Drexel; correspondence, letters of recommendation and application materials for Rakhmiel Peltz's application as Director of Jewish Studies at Queens College; correspondence with Prof. Putschke (Forschungsinstitut fuer Deutsche Sprache); correspondence with James Rader from Random House regarding dictionary with copies of galleys and notecards including MH's handwritten notes; Mendele email from Ron Robboy; letter from Elinor Robinson; correspondence with Walter Roell about Festschrift for Erika Timm; letter from Arnold Schotsky; correspondence with Jeffrey Shandler and typescript of paper on Yiddishland and paper on Jewish Responses to Christmas; correspondence with Khone Shmeruk; correspondence with Alla Sokolova with attachments; e-mail from Stanislawski to Herzog regarding denial of tenure to Rakhmiel Peltz; letter from the rector of Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien Heidelberg to Stanislawski; cards from Andrew Sunshine
Box 3 Folder 1
correspondence with Jerzy Kloczowski (English, one letter in French); project proposal "Atlas of Socio-Religious History of East Central Europe" by Jerzy Kloczowski; correspondence with Elzbieta Szlufik (English, some handwritten); correspondence with Dr. Joachim Russek; correspondence with Dr. Jozef Gierowski; correspondence and materials on conference at Jagiellonian University "Polish Jews until 1939 in the Polish and Worl Historiography" (English and Polish)
Box 3 Folder 2
correspondence with Alexis Manaster Ramer (incl. letter form Steven Zipperstein; newspaper clipping of Philologso column; draft of "The Plural Origins of Yiddish")
Box 3 Folder 3
offprint "Yiddish Origins: The Austro-Bavarian Problem" by Alexis Manaster Ramer; email correspondence from Alexis Manaster Ramer; typescripts by Alexis Manaster Ramer; correspondence with Alexis Manaster Ramer; CV of Alexis Manaster Ramer
Box 3 Folder 4
letters of recommendation on behalf of Alexis Manaster Ramer to Steven Zipperstein; letter to Paul Roberge; letter to Sander Gilman; letter to Michael Fishbane; letter to Walter Savitch; letter to Marsha Rozenblit; letter to Hayim Lapin; letter to Derek Penslar; press clipping from NYT; correspondence with Chava Lapin
Box 3 Folder 5
email printouts on Slavic influence on Yiddish syntax (Mendele)
Box 3 Folder 6
letter from Erika Timm; correspondence with Chava Turniansky; correspondence with Kurt Tutter and Theo Klein and copy of article by Theo Klein (French); correspondence with Ruth Velleman and copies of two other articles on phonology; correspondence and with Anna Verschik and copy of her article on Estonian Yiddish; paper "On Contacts between Estonian and Yiddish" by Anna Verschik with letter to MH; email and correspondence with student Benjamin Weiner; correspondence with Bina Weinreich; correspondence with Paul Wexler; correspondence with Rainer Wimmer; correspondence with Werner Winter and Robert Neumann about Atlas Linguarum Europae; letter from Seth Wolitz and typescript "The Jewish National Art Renaissance in Russia"; letter from Mikhoel Zand (?) from Moscow thanking MH for third volume of FoY
Box 4 Folder 1
MA thesis "Patterns and Correlations in Hebrew and English Names" by Rella Cohn, University of Chicago
Box 4 Folder 2
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
teaching materials and other notes on "Yiddish Phonology"; senior thesis "Tsures or a Systematic Analysis of Stress Assignment in Yiddish"
Box 4 Folder 4
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
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
teachng materials and lecture notes on course "Yiddish and Hebrew: Functional Variation"
Box 4 Folder 7
teaching materials and other notes on "Yiddish Verbs"; some notes in UW's hand
Box 4 Folder 8
typescript of Holger Nath's dissertation
Box 5 Folder 1
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
application to doctoral fellowship from the Memorial foundation (project description; introduction; application form)
Box 5 Folder 3
dissertation proposal with comments by Rakhmiel Peltz and Mikhl Herzog; correspondence
Box 5 Folder 4
letter and dissertation draft from Holger Nath
Box 5 Folder 5
correspondence with Charles Nydorf; correspondence between Elinor Robinson and Rakhmiel Peltz; letters from Michael Stanislawski; dissertation proposals by Charles Nydorf
Box 6 Folder 1
dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Benjamin Harshav; Austerlitz; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; letter of recommendation to Memorial Foundation
Box 6 Folder 2
dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Box 6 Folder 3
dissertation correspondence and sample chapters; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Box 6 Folder 4
typescript dissertation chapter 2; maps; two other notes
Box 6 Folder 5
"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
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"
Box 7 Folder 1
email from Leonard Prager; letter from Juerg Fleischer; correspondence with Jean Baumgarten and Robert Neumann (French, English) typed and handwritten; e-mail correspondence with Jean Lowenstamm; e-mail correspondence with Avrom Novershtern (Yiddish); correspondence with Leyzer Wolf; letter to The Economist
Box 7 Folder 2
correspondence with European Commission regarding funding for Atlas Project (through the Forderverin fur Jiddische Sprache und Kultur); applications to the European Commission for funding; final report on EYDES project to the European Commission; description of EYDES project
Box 7 Folder 3
EYDES Transcription Workbench User's guide; digitizing tapes for archival preservation; report on transcripton workbench of EYDES project
Box 7 Folder 4
materials for the LCAAJ website at Columbia created by Andrew Rosenblum; dittographs of transcriptions by MH; transcriptions and translations by Kalmen Weiser
Box 7 Folder 5
notes on the Atlas introduction and comments by Dovid Katz on the introduction; other notes on the Atlas introduction
Box 7 Folder 6
typescript of paper "Talmudic Chant, Yiddish Intonation and Origins of Early Ashkenaz" by Zelda Kahan-Newman; typescript on the name of the LCAAJ with notes; email correspondence with Zelda Kahan-Newman; email correspondence with conference organizers and copy of paper "The LCAAJ: A Model for the Study of Jewish Diaspora Languages"; correspondence with Robert Neumann and copy of paper "Historical Yiddish Language Resource"; correspondence with Ulrike Kiefer
Box 7 Folder 7
letters of support for LCAAJ tape preservation to Carol Mandel; letter from MH to David; Righteous Person Fundation grant guidelines; correspondence with Atran Foundation regarding tape preservation; other material concerning tape preservation project
Box 7 Folder 8
lecture manuscript with maps
Box 7 Folder 9
NSF application "MAST (Multilingual Access to Spoken Text): Creating a Digital Library of the Modern Yiddish Language and letters of support; letter from Judith Klavans to MH
Box 7 Folder 10
LCAAJ transparencies (title page and maps); paragraphs about certain words/maps; yiddish dialect map transparencies and notes; other dialect maps
Box 7 Folder 11
contract with Max Niemeyer Verlag (German); contract with Max Niemeyer Verlag and letters from Ulrike Kiefer (two copies)
Box 7 Folder 12
email correspondence; letter to DAAD (confirming cooperation with Dr. Wolfgang Putschke and Robert Neumann) (two copies)
Box 7 Folder 13
Yedies fun YIVO; Columbia University Record; copy of NYT article on Yiddish Atlas with post-it from Bina Weinreich; copy of article on NYT article in Jewish currents by George Jochnowitz with personal note; printout of online NYT article "Web Site Preserves Vanishing Yiddish"; printout of Columbia website "The Spoken Yiddish Language Project" and "A Summary of the LCAAJ Project"; NYT newspaper clipping "Reclaiming Sounds of a Discarded Yiddish Culture"
Box 7 Folder 14
application to Transcoop Program (DAAK)
Box 7 Folder 15
dedication page of Atlas volume; notes, and corrections on proofs for LAACJ III volume; correspondence with Erika Timm, Neil Jacobs and Astrid Starck
Box 8 Folder 1
offprint "Ansaetze und Moeglichkeiten einer kontrastiven Sprachgeographie"
Box 8 Folder 2
off-print "Origin of Shlemiel 'Simpleton, Unlucky Bungler'" by Gerald Cohen; offprint of article on Origin of Ker- in Kerflop, Kerplunk, etc. in Comments on Etymology by Gerald Cohen
Box 8 Folder 3
offprint "Namen germanischer Herkunft und hebraeisches Schriftsystem"
Box 8 Folder 4
offprint "Die Bedeutung des Raetoromanischen fuer die Entstehung der jiddischen Sprache"
Box 8 Folder 5
offprint "Helkah shel Ivrit be-Yidish Holandit"
Box 8 Folder 6
offprint "Zur Etymologie einiger jiddischer und deutscher Schimpfwoerter und Gaunerbezeichnungen im Polnischen" by Ewa Geller in ZfSI; offprint of "Jiddische und polnische Parallelen im situationsspezifischen Sprachgebrauch" by Ewa Geller
Box 8 Folder 7
journal issue"Schweizer Dialekte in Text und Ton: Surbtaler Jiddisch"
Box 8 Folder 8
off-print of Critica with review of MH's "The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland: Its Geography and History"; other reviews of "The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland"; offprint "Inherited Neurologic Diseases of Ashkenazic Jewry: Demographic Data Suggesting Non-Random Gene Frequencies"
Box 8 Folder 9
offprint of "Hebrew-Aramaic Component Verbs in Yiddish" by Neil Jacobs in Mediterranean Language Review; offprint of "On the Investigation of 1920s Vienna Jewish Speech" by Neil Jacobs in American Journal of Germanic Linguistics & Literatures; offprint "Hebrew-Aramaic Component Verbs in Yiddish" by Neil Jacobs; copy of book review on Paul Wexler's "Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics" by Neil Jacobs
Box 8 Folder 10
offprint "On Yiddish, In Yiddish, and for Yiddish"; offprint "Hebrew, Aramaic and the Rise of Yiddish"; review of Solomon Birnbaum's "Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar"; offprint "Dialektologie des Jiddischen"; offprint (Hebrew)
Box 8 Folder 11
offprints of reviews on Dovid Katz's Dialects of the Yiddish Language and Origins of the Yiddish Language; copies of articles by Dovid Katz and Mordkhe Schaechter in Yiddish journals
Box 8 Folder 12
offprint "Toward a 'Standard Yiddish' Pronunciation"
Box 8 Folder 13
offprint "Judeo-Gallica ou Gallo-Judaica?"
Box 8 Folder 14
offprint "The Pace of Modernisation of German Jewrz in the 19th Century" by Steven Lowenstein; offprint "The Yiddish Written Word in 19th Century Germany" by Steven Lowenstein
Box 8 Folder 15
offprint "Zur Geschichte des jiddischen Wortes makeinen"
Box 8 Folder 16
offprint "Automatisierung der Etymologischen Klassifikation" by Robert Neumann in Aspects of Language; offprint of "Symbolisierungsverfahren im Rahmen der Automatischen Sprachkartographie" by Robert Neumann in Germanistische Linguistik; magazines from the Marburger University with articles by Robert Neumann; offprint "Sprachatlanten des Deutschen"; offprint "Sprachbewusstsein"; offprint "Sprachatlasarchive als wissensbasierte dezentrale Datenbanken mit zentralem Zugriff" by Robert Neumann
Box 8 Folder 17
offprint "Semitic Doubles in Hebrew and Ladino" by Ora Schwarzwald and letter from her; offprint "Mixed Translation Patterns" by Ora Schwarzwald; offprint "Linguistic Variations among Ladino Translations" by Ora Schwarzwald; offprint "Morphological Aspects in the Development of Judaeo-Spanish" by Ora Schwarzwald;
Box 8 Folder 18
offprint "Slavic Kinship Terms and the Perils of the Soul"
Box 8 Folder 19
"The Language of the Jews in the Four Communities of Comtat Venaissin" with a preface by Max Weinreich, YIVO publication
Box 8 Folder 20
offprint "Das aeltere Jiddisch als Gegenstand sprachpragmatischer Forschung"; offprint "Zwei neuaufgefundene jiddische Briefe von 1602 und ihre Bedeutung fuer die Sozial- und Sprachgeschichte"; offprint "Zur Fruehgeschichte der jiddischen Erzaehlprosa"
Box 8 Folder 21
offprint "on the Dynamics of Yiddish Dialect Formation" by Max Weinreich for FoY II (marked proof)
Box 8 Folder 22
offprint of Uriel Weinreich's obituatry in Language; offprint "A Retrograde sound shift in the guise of a survival" by Uriel Weinreich; offprint "vegn a nayem yidishn shprakh- un kultur-atlas"
Box 8 Folder 23
offprint "Judeo-Slavic Frontispieces" by Paul Wexler; offprint "Languages in Contact: The Case of Rotwelsch and the Two 'Yiddishes'" by Paul Wexler; offprint "Brief Communications'"; offprint "Reconceptualizing the Genesis of Yiddish in the Light of its Non-Native Components" by Paul Wexler; typescript of "The Reconstruction of pre-Ashkenazic Jewish settlements" by Paul Wexler; offprint "The Role of Yiddish in the Recovery of Slavic Linguistic History"; offprint "Jewish Interlinguistics: Facts and Conceptual Framework"; offprint "Ascertaining the Position of Judezmo within Ibero-Romance"
Box 8 Folder 24
offprint "The case of the errant question marker"
Box 9 Folder 1
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
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
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
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Box 10 Folder 1
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
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
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 (dissertation typescript) by John Maurice Efron
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Box 11 Folder 3
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
Eberhard Kranzmayer: Laut- und Hilfskarten zur "Historischen Lautgeographie des gesamtbairischen Dialektraumes"
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Box 12 Folder 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
typescript of "Talmudic Chant, Yididsh Intonation and the Origins of Early Ashkenaz"
Box 13 Folder 4
letters, telegraphs, camp schedule, camp reports, newspaper clipping and other materials on Habonim (Labor Zionist Youth) and Camp Kvutza
If you would like to use materials in Series VII, please contact the library in advance of your visit to discuss access options.
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CD "Gesprochenes Jiddisch" Viewer 2.0
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Kermit 3.14
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Atarist Kermit
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BestWebt Windows 95 Software
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Arye biz Zebra: Ivrit English Yiddish ilustrirter Verterbukh
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YIVO Conference
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I Harrison; H. Krolt
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R. Matyen Strassburg
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Dokumentation 1; Sara M. Jaakov S. Chava Y. Dina L. Ruth P. Natan K. Avram D. Jehuda L.
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Wolf Snyder Detroit
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Mayn Yingele; Sima Miller, Misha Reitsin OR Chaim Towber; Louis Danto; Claire Klein-Osipov; Sidor Belarsky
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Dokumentation 2; copy; Meir V.
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Liliana Treves Alcaley Yiddish & Ladino Songs
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Dutch Beem De Vries (?)