Marvin Herzog

Jewish-American professor (1927–2013)
Marvin Herzog
Born(1927-09-13)September 13, 1927
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedJune 28, 2013(2013-06-28) (aged 85)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materColumbia University
Scientific career
FieldsYiddish
InstitutionsColumbia University
Doctoral advisorUriel Weinreich

Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (September 13, 1927 – June 28, 2013) was a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University.

Biography

Herzog received his Ph.D. from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich.

In 1967, he became the director, and then the 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).[1]

Books

  • Herzog, Marvin I., The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland. Its Geography and History, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, and The Hague, Mouton & Co., 1965.
  • Herzog, Marvin, et al. ed., YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, 3 vols., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1992–2000, ISBN 3-484-73013-7.

See also

  • Yiddish dialects

References

  1. ^ "Marvin I. Herzog papers, 1942-2008". Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

External links

  • EYDES (LCAAJ's website)
  • LCAAJ Collection of Spoken Yiddish @ Columbia
  • Columbia's Yiddish Department
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