Marvin Herzog
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Marvin I. Herzog (born September 13, 1927; Toronto, Canada) is a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University
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He is the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction with YIVO
, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ).
He received his Ph.d.
from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich
.
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
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He is the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction with YIVO
YIVO
YIVO, , established in 1925 in Wilno, Poland as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut , or Yiddish Scientific Institute, is a source for orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to the Yiddish language...
, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ).
He received his Ph.d.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich was a linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius , he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia, and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology...
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Books
- Herzog, Marvin I., The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland. Its Geography and History, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, and The Hague, Mouton & Co., 1965.