Max Weinreich

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Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen, Courland (Kuldiga, Latvia) - 1969 New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish.

He founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (originally called Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO)) in Vilnius (Vilna) in 1925, and was its director from 1925 to 1939. From 1940 he led it in New York.

He is the father of Uriel Weinreich, another famous linguist.

He 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" ("אַ שפראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמײ און פֿלאָט", "a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot"; in "der yivo un di problemen fun undzer tsayt", yivo-bleter, January-July 1945, p. 13), but he states clearly in that text that he was quoting something told to him by an unnamed auditor at one of his lectures. Earlier authorship has also been attributed to French sources.

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[edit] Known publications

[edit] English

Hitler's professors : the part of scholarship in Germany's crimes against the Jewish people by Max Weinreich. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999
History of the Yiddish language / Max Weinreich ; translated by Shlomo Noble, with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

[edit] Yiddish

Bilder fun der Yidisher literaturgeshikhte fun di onheybn biz Mendele Mokher-Seforim ; mit 12 reprod / : Maks Vaynraykh. 1928
Chrysander's Yiddish grammar of 1750. / Reproduced from the original with introductory remarks by Max Weinreich. 1958
Das Jiddische Wissenschaftliche Institut ("Jiwo") die wissenschaftliche Zentralstelle des Ostjudentu / : 1931
Der durkhgegangener veg : oytobiografye / mit a forvort fun M. Vaynraykh. 1950
Fun beyde zaytn ployt : dos shturemdike lebn fun Uri Kovnern, dem nihilist / Maks Vaynraykh. 1955
Geschichte der jiddischen Sprachforschung / Max Weinreich ; herausgegeben von Jerold C. Frakes. c1993
Di geshikhte fun beyzn beyz / [microform]. 1937
Geshikhte fun der Yidisher shprakh (History of the Yiddish language) : bagrifn, faktn, metodn / fun Maks Vaynraykh. 1973
Hitlers profesorn : heylek fun der Daytsher visnshaft in Daytshland farbrekhns kegn Yidishn folk. Nyu-York : Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, Historishe sektsye, 1947.
Mayn heymshtetl Strikov ; geshikhtes fun a lebn in der alter heym un in Amerike / Avrohom Pinkhes Unger ; mit a forvort fun M. Vaynraykh. 1957
Mekhires-Yosef : ... aroysgenumen fun seyfer "Tam ve-yashar" un fun andere sforim ... / Maks Vaynraykh. 1923
Der Onheyb : zamlbukh far literatur un visnshaft / redaktirt fun D. Aynhorn, Sh. Gorelik, M. Vaynraykh. 1922
Oysgeklibene shriftn / Maks Vaynraykh ; [unter der redaktsye fun Shemu'el Rozshanski]. 1974
Der oytser fun der Yidisher sprakh / fun Nahum Stutshkov ; unter der redaktsye fun Maks Vaynraykh. c1950
Praktishe gramatik fun der Yidisher shprakh / / [fun] F. Haylperin un M. Vaynraykh. 1929
Shreib un grayzn a hantbikhl far . . . rikhtik oysleygn Yidish un speziel di Hebreishe elementn in d /: tsunoyfgeshtelt fun Dr. Maks Vaynraykh. 1926
Shtaplen fir etyudn tsu der Yidisher shprakhvisnshaft un literaturgeshikhte / fun Maks Vaynraykh. 1923
Shturemvint bilder fun der Yidisher geshikhte in zibtsntn yorhundert / fun Max Weinreich.
Di shvartse pintelekh / Max Vaynraykh. Vilne : Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, 1939.
Di Yidishe visnshaft in der heyntiker tsayt/ fun M. Vaynraykh. Nyu-York : [o. fg.], 1941.

[edit] Other possible publications (validity uncertain)

The reality of Jewishness versus the ghetto myth: The sociolinguistic roots of Yiddish by Max Weinreich In To honor to Roman Jacobson The Hague: Mounton 1967
History of the Yiddish language: The problems and their implications by Max Weinreich 1963?
Yiddish, Knaanic, Slavic: The basic relationships by Max Weinreich For Roman Jacobson The Hague, 1956 p. 623