Paul Wexler (linguist)
Paul Wexler is a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University.[1] Wexler is known for his theory that Yiddish is a dialect of Sorbian.[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/29/science/scholars-debate-roots-of-yiddish-migration-of-jews.html New York Times
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=sLbGOXe5B6YC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=paul+wexler+yiddish&source=bl&ots=dhFZkgiAZL&sig=Gs4oFLSlJuu8oN50LDERwG4IwXw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=us_KU4uzAaru8QGOpIGQDQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwATgU Critical Essays in Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship
Academic works
- Wexler, Paul. (1987). Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics. Contributions to the sociology of Jewish languages 2. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-07656-3. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- Wexler, Paul (1996). The non-Jewish origins of the Sephardic Jews. SUNY. ISBN 978-1-4384-2393-7.
- Wexler, Paul. (2002). Two-Tiered Relexification in Yiddish:Jews, Sorbs, Khazars and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect. Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs: Studies and monographs 136. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017258-4. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- Wexler, Paul (2007). "Yiddish Evidence for the Khazar Component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis". In Golden, Peter B.; Ben-Shammai,, Haggai; Róna-Tas, András. The World of the Khazars:New Perspectives. Handbuch der Orientalistik: Handbook of Uralic studies 17. BRILL. pp. 387–398. ISBN 978-90-04-16042-2. Retrieved 19 October 2013.