Yiddish - A Survey and a Grammar - 2nd Edition

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

List of contents

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)

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: David Birnbaum, Eleazar Birnbaum, S a Birnbaum, S. A. Birnbaum, S.A. Birnbaum
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781442614338
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1433-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book