ORIGINS OF YIDDISH DIALECTS C

Alexander Beider holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of several etymological dictionaries of Ashkenazic surnames and given names and a number of papers dealing with the history of Yiddish. He is the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.

- Introduction - 1: Main concepts and classifications - 2: The German component - 3: The Hebrew component - 4: Romance elements - 5: Slavic elements - 6: Sound changes and dialects - Conclusion - Appendix A: The Yiddish dialect of PhilogLottus 1733 - Appendix B: Germans and German language in Poland - Appendix C: Origins of Ashkenazic Jewry - Glossary - References - Index