Mordkhe Schaechter — Mordkhe Schaechter, a world renowned Yiddish linguist. Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter (Yiddish: דר איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying,… … Wikipedia
Schaechter-Gottesman — The Schaechter Gottesman family is a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies.Members include: *Lifshe Schaechter Widman *Mordkhe Schaechter (1927 2007) Yiddish linguist, teacher, and writer *Beyle Schaechter Gottesman (1920 )… … Wikipedia
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman — Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter. BiographyShe was born in Vienna into an Eastern European, Yiddish speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine (then Romania) and settled… … Wikipedia
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath — Yiddish language poet Gitl Schaechter Viswanath was born in the The Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up in a Yiddish speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry in 1980, much of which was published in the… … Wikipedia
Binyumen Schaechter — Binyumen (Ben) Schaechter (1963 ) is a Yiddish composer and performer, as well as conductor of the Jewish People s Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) and the Pripetshik Singers, an ensemble of native Yiddish speaking children. They have performed at… … Wikipedia
LIFSHITS, SHIYE-MORDKHE — (1829–1878), pioneering Yiddish lexicographer, author, and a theoretician of the Yiddishist movement in the 19th century. With a solid intellectual background (he was a student of mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages) Lifshits propounded… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Yiddish orthography — The Yiddish language is written using Hebrew script as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet. This adaptation uses letters that are silent or glottal stops in Hebrew, as vowels in Yiddish. Other letters that can serve as both vowels and consonants … Wikipedia
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
WEINREICH, MAX — (1894–1969), Yiddish linguist, historian, editor. Born in Kuldiga (Latvia), Weinreich made his debut as a Yiddish writer at the age of 13, and became a contributor to various Yiddish, Russian, German, and later English publications. After… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
WEINREICH, URIEL — (1925–1967), Yiddish and general linguist, editor, and educator. Despite his early death, he left behind him the equivalent of several lifetimes of research and creativity – an unbelievably wide range of investigations. Born in Vilna, the son of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
