(selection)
2022–2023 and in progress
Yiddish
Cultural Dictionary (YCD): A New English-Yiddish Dictionary (in progress,
free online)
Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA)
Recent
Work in Yiddish Linguistics
New
Bible translations into Lithuanian Yiddish
Responsa
in Yiddish Linguistics
Litvish:
An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (in progress)
Excerpts
from interviews on YouTube
The
Language of Litvak Gravestones: A Cultural Dictionary
Standard Yiddish forms for the Names of Towns and Cities in Lithuania
On Zalmen Reyzen’s attitude toward purism
On origin and meaning of kuleháy
2021
2020
Reflections on Czernowitz (and Nearby Cities) in the Rise of Yiddishism at (earlier Yiddish conference lecture)
Online republication
of Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (free online)
Translations into Lithuanian Yiddish of the Biblical books Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah; revised translation of Book of Esther published in Vilnius as booklet
2019
The
Yiddish Conundrum: A Cautionary Tale for Language Revivalism
On
Methodology in Yiddish Historical Linguistics
2018
The
Current Meaning of Czernowitz (on the 110th anniversary)
Freud
and 21st Century Yiddish
Translation
of Hosea
into Lithuanian Yiddish
2017
Yiddish
commentary on a Lithuanian-Hebrew textbook from 1928
Translations
of Ecclesiastes
and Song
of Songs into Lithuanian Yiddish
2016
Translations
of II
Kings, Jonah,
Lamentations,
Daniel
into Lithuanian Yiddish
Interpretation
of a 19th century Belarusian rabbi’s comments on Ashkenazic Hebrew
“If
Not Even More Clever”( Russian
translation by Julia Rets of the Yiddish short story Oyb nisht
nokh klíger in Misnágdishe
Máyses)
2015
Yiddish
and Power (Palgrave Macmillan)
Translations
of I Kings
into Lithuanian Yiddish
A
1916 Vilna German postcard featuring four languages
Ber
Horowitz’s six 1929 Portraits of Vilna Yiddish intellectuals
Chaim
Nachman Shapiro’s 1935 Kaunas book on Vilna in Jewish poetry
Hebrew
advertisement for Vilna Jewish school on Zavalna (Pylimo) in a Yiddish
newspaper
A
1921 list of 27 of Vilna’s synagogues
2014
Freewheeling
Deconstruction of Max Weinreich
Knaanic
in the Medieval and Modern Scholarly Imagination
2013
Reconstructing
the Sound Pattern of 19th Century Ashkenazic Hebrew Poetry in Vilna
Mystery
of the Eight-Pointed Western Litvak (Zámeter) Symbol on Jewish
Gravestones
2012
Revised
questionnaire
Excerpts
from interviews on Facebook
Terms
for 'Jesus' in Yiddish
2011
On
the Status of Maps in Linguistic Research (with G. Beconytë)
2010
Talking
of Love in Yiddish
Chapters
in Yiddish 9
Chapters
in Yiddish 8
Chapters
in Yiddish 7
Chapters
in Yiddish 6
Chapters
in Yiddish 5
Chapters
in Yiddish 4
Chapters
in Yiddish 3
2009
Chapters
in Yiddish 2
Chapters
in Yiddish 1
Review
of Michael Wex’s Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture
in all its Moods
2008
The
entry "Yiddish" in the YIVO Encyclopedia
On
the word beygl
2007
Afikoymen
(afikomen) in Yiddish dialectology
[ed.]
Yiddish Spelling Conventions for the Algemeyner Zhurnal
2006
Origin
of the name Zalmen
Origin
(and incarnations) of the name Shneur
Review
of Jacobs
2005
The
Legacy of Yudl Mark
The
Oldest Word in the Yiddish Language
Semantics
of the word Litvak in Yiddish
Shifting
Semantics of the notion yidishíst
Speculations
on the Etymology (and Meaning) of katóves
Symbology
of the Variant Spellings of the word yidish in Yiddish
2004
The
dangers of modern cartography
2003
The
Gaon of Vilna's Yiddish Dialect (3.7 meg)
2001
Yiddish
keyboard for Davkawriter
1999
Professors
of Yiddish ‘decide’ that Yiddish is dead...
1998
The
Religious Prestige of the Gaon and the Secular Prestige of Lithuanian
Yiddish
Historical
Semantics of the term Ashkenazim (3.7 meg)
1997
The
“Yiddishist” book of Akiva-Yehosef Schlesinger (10.9
meg)
The
Maharil and Yiddish (2.3 meg)
1996
Yiddish
and Rotwelsch (4.2 meg)
Review
of the Atlas Vol. II
Ber
Borokhov's Philology and Literary History
A
Thousand Years of Yiddish in the European Arena
Twelve
Schools of Yiddish Linguistics over 600 Years
1995
On
the Origins of Penultimate Stress (mileyl) in the Semitic Component
of Yiddish
Review
of the Atlas Vol. I
Twelve
Letters from Solomon A. Birnbaum
1994
New
Incarnations of an Old Debate: The (controversial) Lithuanian Yiddish
based Standard Pronunciation (8.8 meg)
Notions of the Yiddish Language
1993
East
and West, Khes and Shin, and the Origins of Yiddish (6.9
meg)
The
Phonology of Ashkenazic (13.4 meg)
Amended
Amendments: Issues in Yiddish Stylistics [Tikney Takones. Fragn fun
yidisher stilistik] (6.4 meg)
1992
[ed.]
Code of Yiddish Spelling [Klal-takones fun yidishn oysleyg] (4.9
meg)
The
Crisis of Yiddish Stylistics (1.8
meg)
On
the shtumer alef in the Twenty-First Century [article accepted
by Yidishe kultur but withdrawn by the author; another version
appeared in Undzer tsayt].
1991
Antiquity
of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (20.3 meg)
Hebrew
translation by Benjamin Harshav (18.4 meg)
Katoves
in the Late Twentieth Century (6.6 meg)
The
Children of Heth and the Ego of Linguistics. A Story of Seven Yiddish
Mergers (6.3 meg)
Solomon
A. Birnbaum / Shloyme Birnboym (obituary)
The
"Daytshmerish Scare" is a Thing of the Past!
(3.2 meg)
1990
Older
Yiddish Lexicography: Sources and Methods (12.4
meg)
Review
of Frakes
Review
of Frakes
Preface
to Oxford Yiddish, vol. 1
1988
Origins
of Yiddish Dialectology (5.1 meg)
Alexander
Harkavy and his Trilingual Dictionary
On
the Second Winter Symposium
1987
The
Proto Dialectology of Ashkenaz (6.2 meg)
Grammar
of the Yiddish Language (34.1 meg)
On
the First Winter Symposium
1986
On Yiddish, In Yiddish, and For Yiddish: 500 Years of Yiddish Linguistic Scholarship
The
Language of Josef Herz's Esther: Midwestern Yiddish (6.7
meg)
Course
on Yiddish Dialectology (11.8 meg)
1985
Hebrew,
Aramaic and the Rise of Yiddish (6.3 meg)
1983
Yiddish
Dialectology (9.8 meg)
Twelfth
and Thirteenth Century Yiddish (375 KB)
1982
Origins
of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (PhD thesis, 7.7
meg)
The Theory of Yiddish and the Max Weinreich Heritage
1981
Review
of Birnbaum (2.3 meg)
1980
Ber
Borokhov, Pioneer of Yiddish Linguistics
The
Wavering Yiddish Segolate and Sociolinguistic Reconstruction (6.7
meg)
1979
Internal
Classification of the Western Yiddish Dialects (1.0
meg)
1978
Genetic
Notes on Netherlandic Yiddish Vocalism (2.4 meg)
Historic
Sources of the Semitic Component High Vowels (2.4
meg)
Judezmo
& Yiddish: Proto Vocalism of their Hebrew & Aramaic Component
(5.3 meg)
Semantic
Classes Resistant to a Yiddish Sound Shift
Vocalic
Diaphonemes of the Yiddish Dialects (5.0 meg)
Review
of Goldsmith (6.6 meg)
1977
Reconstruction
of the Proto Vocalism of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (4.5
meg)
1976
From
Aramaic to Yiddish (April 1976 handouts to Dec. 1975 paper of the same
name) (1.0 meg)