Solomon Birnbaum
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Recent papers in Solomon Birnbaum
This chapter is from the revised and expanded second edition of Solomon Birnbaum's Yiddish. A Survey and Grammar (2015). It addresses the origins and history of Birnbaum's classic work (1979) as well as notes ways in which Birnbaum's... more
An exploration of the phonetically precise, multi-dialectal spelling system developed by linguist Solomon Birnbaum as part of his Orthodox Jewish religious ideology and his battle against secular influences on the Yiddish language (in... more
This article (in Yiddish) discusses debates about the standardization of Yiddish pronunciation in Jewish secular schools in the interwar period, especially in Poland and the USSR.
This is the introduction to a 2010 volume based on a conference of the same title held at held at York University in Toronto in 2008.