Solomon Birnbaum

Solomon Birnbaum (also: Solomon, Solomon, Solomon, Shloime A [ shear ] Birnbaum, Birnbojm or: Solomon Ash ) ( born December 24, 1891 in Vienna, † 28 December 1989 in New York ) was an Austrian linguist for the Yiddish and Hebrew language.

Solomon Birnbaum comes from a Jewish family and was the eldest son of Nathan Birnbaum and pink grain product. He attended a grammar school in Vienna, and later two classes in Czernowitz, where he passed the Abitur. 1910 to 1912 he studied architecture in Vienna. Birnbaum served during World War I in the Austro -Hungarian army. From 1918 he studied Oriental Studies at the Universities of Vienna, Zurich, Berlin and Würzburg, where he received his doctorate. From 1922 to 1933 he held the first teaching Yiddish in Western Europe at the University of Hamburg. After the seizure of power of National Socialism Birnbaum fled with his wife Irene Gruenwald, the time of his life Birnbaum's assistant and editor of his works remained, and his children to the UK.

From 1936 to 1957 Birnbaum was a lecturer in palaeography and epigraphy of Hebrew at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 1938 ( also to 1957 ), he also taught at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of Yiddish (East European Jewish Studies). During the Second World War Birnbaum was released to translation work for the British authorities. 1970 emigrated from Birnbaum to Toronto ( Canada).

Works

  • Practical Grammar of the Yiddish language; Vienna and Leipzig, 1918; then: Grammar of the Yiddish language, Hamburg 1966, 1979, 1984, 1988.
  • Life and words of Balschemm; 1920
  • The Hebrew and Aramaic element in the Yiddish language; 1921 ( dissertation)
  • The Yiddish language; in: Germanic- Romance monthly magazine (1923 )
  • The romanization of Yiddish; in: Teuthonista (1933 )
  • The Age of the Yiddish language; In: Transactions of the Philological Society, London 1939
  • Jewish Languages ​​; in: Essays in Honour of the Very Rev. Dr. JH Hertz, London 1944 (1942)
  • Yiddish Phrase Book; hg. v. The Linguaphone Institute for The Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, London 1945
  • The Cultural Structure of Ashkenazic Jewry East; in: The Slavonic and East European Review, London 1946
  • The verb in the Bukharic Language of Samarkand; in: Archivum Linguisticum 2 (1950 /51)
  • ? How old are the Cave Manuscripts, in: Vetus Testamentum (1951 )
  • The Hebrew script; 2 vols, Leiden 1954-57, 1971
  • The Yiddish language; Hamburg in 1974, 1986, 1997
  • Yiddish - A Survey and a Grammar, Toronto 1979
  • History of the u - sounds in Yiddish; in: Journal of German Philology (1981 )
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