S.A. Birnbaum

Yiddish

A Survey and a Grammar

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781442614338
• ISBN-10: 1442614331
• Artikelnr.: 41625231

Autorenporträt

S.A. Birnbaum was a pioneer in the academic study of Yiddish. The first person to hold a teaching post in the study of Yiddish at any university in the world, he taught at the Universities of Hamburg and London. Eleazar Birnbaum is a professor emeritus in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toront0. David Birnbaum is the Director of the Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Archives, Toronto. Kalman Weiser is the Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University, Toronto. Jean Baumgarten is Directeur de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Centre d'Études Juives, Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the New Edition
Part A: Introductory Essays
1. A Brief Account of Solomon Birnbaum’s Life and Some Personal
Reminiscences (Eleazar and David Birnbaum)
2. Yiddish: A Survey and A Grammar in Its Historical and Cultural Context
(Kalman Weiser)
3. Solomon A. Birnbaum: An Appreciation of a Lifetime of Scholarship on
Yiddish (Jean Baumgarten)
Part B: Solomon A. Birnbaum’s Yiddish, a Survey and a Grammar (1979)
Errata
Part C: Supplementary Bibliography (2014)