Uriel Weinreich

Uriel Weinreich (* May 23, 1926 in Vilnius, † March 30, 1967 in New York) was an American linguist.

Life

Uriel Weinreich was the son of the linguist Max Weinreich. The Weinreich family emigrated in 1940 to the United States. Uriel Weinreich was in 1951 at Columbia University and in 1957 Dean of the linguistic faculty. Research by Weinreich were the Yiddish and sociolinguistics. With his book Languages ​​in contact, he made an important contribution to language contact research. With his programmatic article Is a structural Dialectology possible? 1954 applies Weinreich as one of the pioneers of structuralism in dialectology.

Uriel Weinreich was the initiator of the project LCAAJ ( Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry ), which he headed from 1959 until his death. It has since been continued by Marvin Herzog. The LCAAJ is an extraordinary resource for the study of Yiddish and the culture of Ashkenazic Jewry. It consists of 5755 hours tape recordings of interviews with Yiddish-speaking informants, recorded 1959-1972, as well as approximately 100,000 pages transcripts of the speech material.

Writings

  • Uriel Weinreich: Languages ​​in contact. French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland. With an introduction and notes by Ronald I. Kim and William Labov. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011, ISBN 978-90-272-1187-3 ( new edition of the dissertation of 1951).
  • Uriel Weinreich: Languages ​​in contact. Findings and problems. New York: Publications of the Linguistic Circle of New York 1, 1953; The Hague: Mouton, 1963 - German. Languages ​​in contact. Results and problems of bilingualism research. With an afterword by A. de Vincenz. Munich 1976 ( Beck elementary books), ISBN 3-406-06462-0.
  • Uriel Weinreich: Modern english - english - Yidish Yidish verterbukh. Modern English - Yiddish Yiddish - English Dictionary. New York: Schocken (new paperback edition 1987), ISBN 0-8052-0575-6.
  • Uriel Weinreich: College Yiddish. An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture. New York: YIVO, 6th edition 1999, ISBN 0-914512-26-9.
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