Max Weinreich
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Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך[2] Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics[3] and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.[4]
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Born | 22 April 1894 Goldingen, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (modern Kuldīga, Latvia) |
Died | 29 January 1969(1969-01-29) (aged 74) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | linguist, sociolinguist |
Language | Yiddish |
Alma mater | University of Marburg (1923) |
Notable works | History of the Yiddish language, Hitler's Professors |
Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship[1] |
Spouse | Regina Shabad |
Children | 2 (Uriel and Gabriel) |
Relatives | Zemach Shabad |
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He is known for increasing language awareness of Yiddish as a standardized language; he popularised the phrase "A language is a dialect with an army and navy".