Judaism and Yiddish

Solomon Birnbaum

1925

“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the father of Sabbatai Hacohen, wrote it. We infer that by “Ashkenazic” he meant Yiddish, since Brisk is the Yiddish name of the town that is called in…

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Solomon Birnbaum

1891–1989

The son of the early Jewish nationalist Nathan Birnbaum, Solomon Birnbaum was a Hebrew paleographer, Yiddish philologist, and translator (from German to Yiddish and from Yiddish to German), first in Hamburg and then, after 1933, in London, where he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. His major contribution to Hebrew scholarship was work on the evolution of Hebrew script.

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