Mapping a Culture

Uriel Weinreich

1963

The very lack of a self-contained territory that has so far disqualified the study of Yiddish from NDEA [the National Defense Education Act] support endows Ashkenazic Jewry with exemplary value for a particularly crucial problem in social history: the effect of communication channels and barriers on the diffusion of cultural innovations. Despite…

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Uriel Weinreich

1926–1967

A pioneering linguist whose life was cut short by leukemia, Uriel Weinreich was born in Vilna (today Vilnius), studied at Columbia University, and followed in his father Max Weinreich’s scholarly footsteps. His crowning achievements in the field of Yiddish were the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (started in 1950), College Yiddish (1949), the first such textbook in any language, and his landmark Modern English-to-Yiddish/Yiddish-to-English Dictionary, published in 1968.

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