Isaac L. Bleaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on sociolinguistic variation and language change, especially in contemporary Yiddish. Bleaman received his PhD in Linguistics from New York University (2018) and his Master's in Yiddish Studies from the University of Oxford (2013). He has taught Yiddish at the YIVO Summer Program, the Workmen’s Circle in New York, and the Yiddish Farm.
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Isaac L. Bleaman
University of California, Berkeley
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The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.
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