“Weinreich”
Interview
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.
Dec 10, 2025
Review
Birnbaum and the Distortions of Polemic
Ben Sadock
A review of the new edition of S. A. Birnbaum's Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar
Jun 15, 2017
Pedagogy
Resources in Yiddish Studies: Yiddish Linguistic Scholarship
Zachary M. Baker
This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on publications and other resources devoted to the Yiddish language itself.
Feb 07, 2017
Blog
Searching for Ashkenaz
Ross Perlin
Ashkenaz, the undiscovered country, lies just north of nowhere and a little west of wherever we want it to be.
Jun 07, 2016
Review
The New Yiddish Dialectology: A Review of Alexander Beider's The Origins of Yiddish Dialects
Alec (Leyzer) Burko
Leyzer Burko reviews Alexander Beider's recent monumental volume on the origins of Yiddish dialects.
Jun 05, 2016
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Great Weinreich Debate
Madeleine Cohen
The second installment of our pedagogy forum, presenting the opinions and experiences of Yiddish language teachers on the question of using the textbook College Yiddish.
Sep 27, 2015