7 November 2024 at 18:00 in the Woronczak Lecture Hall, room 115, at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies. All are very welcome.
We are accustomed to thinking of Western and Eastern Yiddish as two separate dialects; nay, some scholars now postulate completely separate origins, essentially that they are different languages. However, the findings of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry show much overlap. Can a border be drawn, and do we need one?
Paul Glasser has a doctorate in linguistics from Columbia University. He has published on Yiddish history, morphology, and dialects.