Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins, Ben-Zion Harel, Eduards Berklavs, Edgars Zalns. Excerpt: Max Weinreich (Russian: April 22, 1894 Kuldga, Russian Empire, now Latvia January 29, 1969, New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich. Max Weinreich (Meyer Lazarevich Veynreykh) began his studies in a German school in Kuldiga, transferring to a Russian gymnasium in Libava after four years. He then lived in Dvinsk and d. Between 1909 and 1912 he resided in Saint Petersburg, where he attended I.G. Eizenbet's private Jewish gymnasium for boys. He was raised in a German-speaking family but became fascinated with Yiddish and founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (originally called the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut Yiddish Scientific Institute) in his apartment in Vilnius in 1925, and was its director from 1925 to 1939. Weinreich was in Denmark with his wife, Regina Shabad Weinreich (the daughter of a notable doctor and Jewish leader in Vilna Zemach Shabad), and older son, Uriel, when war broke out in 1939. Regina returned to Vilnius, but Max and Uriel stayed abroad, moving to New York City in March 1940. His wife and younger son Gabriel joined them there during the brief period when Vilnius was in independent Lithuania. Weinreich became a professor of Yiddish at City College and re-established YIVO in New York. Weinreich is often cited as the author of a criterion for distinguishing between languages and dialects: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" ("," "a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot"), but he was explicitly quoting an auditor at one of his lectures. In Engl... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1175032We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Kuldga District: People from Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins. To get started finding People from Kuldga District: People from Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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30
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158093586
People from Kuldga District: People from Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins, Ben-Zion Harel, Eduards Berklavs, Edgars Zalns. Excerpt: Max Weinreich (Russian: April 22, 1894 Kuldga, Russian Empire, now Latvia January 29, 1969, New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich. Max Weinreich (Meyer Lazarevich Veynreykh) began his studies in a German school in Kuldiga, transferring to a Russian gymnasium in Libava after four years. He then lived in Dvinsk and d. Between 1909 and 1912 he resided in Saint Petersburg, where he attended I.G. Eizenbet's private Jewish gymnasium for boys. He was raised in a German-speaking family but became fascinated with Yiddish and founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (originally called the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut Yiddish Scientific Institute) in his apartment in Vilnius in 1925, and was its director from 1925 to 1939. Weinreich was in Denmark with his wife, Regina Shabad Weinreich (the daughter of a notable doctor and Jewish leader in Vilna Zemach Shabad), and older son, Uriel, when war broke out in 1939. Regina returned to Vilnius, but Max and Uriel stayed abroad, moving to New York City in March 1940. His wife and younger son Gabriel joined them there during the brief period when Vilnius was in independent Lithuania. Weinreich became a professor of Yiddish at City College and re-established YIVO in New York. Weinreich is often cited as the author of a criterion for distinguishing between languages and dialects: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" ("," "a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot"), but he was explicitly quoting an auditor at one of his lectures. In Engl... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1175032We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Kuldga District: People from Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins. To get started finding People from Kuldga District: People from Kuldga, Max Weinreich, Karl Davydov, Yan Rudzutak, Zelig Kalmanovich, Jacob Kettler, Jnis Miins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.