Solomon Birnbaum

Solomon Birnbaum

Solomon Birnbaum, also "Salomon", "Solomon" "A" ["scher"] "Birnbaum" or "Solomon Ascher", (December 24, 1891, Vienna – 1989) was a Yiddish and Hebrew linguist and art historian.

Solomon Birnbaum was the oldest son of Nathan Birnbaum and Rosa Korngut. Birnbaum served in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and then studied and attained a doctorate from the University of Würzburg. From 1922 to 1933, he filled the first worldwide Yiddish Chair at the University of Hamburg. After the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) in Germany, Birnbaum escaped with his wife, Irene Gruenwald and his children to Great Britain leaving his life's work and employer.

From 1936 to 1957, Birnbaum was a lecturer on Hebrew paleography and epigraphy at the "School of Oriental and African Studies" of the University of London. Starting in 1938, he taught at the same time at the "School of Slavonic and East European Studies " of the Yiddish UniversityFact|date=August 2007 ("East European Jewish Studies"). During World War II, Birmbaum worked as a translator for the British authorities. In 1970, Birnbaum immigrated to Toronto (Canada).

Publications

* "Praktische Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache"; Vienna and Leipzig, 1918; in: "Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache", Hamburg 1966, 1979, 1984.
* "Leben und Worte des Balschemm"; 1920
* "Das hebräische und aramäische Element in der jiddischen Sprache"; 1921 (Dissertation)
* "Die jiddische Sprache"; in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift (1923)
* "Die Umschrift des Jiddischen"; in: Teuthonista (1933)
* "the Age of the Yiddish Language"; in: "Transactions of the Philological Society", London 1939
* "Jewish Languages"; in: "Essays in Honour of the Very Rev. Dr. J.H. Hertz", London 1944 (1942)
* "Yiddish Phrase Book"; hg. v. The Linguaphone Institute for The Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, London 1945
* "The Cultural Structure of East Ashkenazic Jewry"; in: "The Slavonic and East European Review", London 1946
* "The Verb in the Bukharic Language of Samarkand"; in: Archivum Linguisticum 2 (1950/51)
* "How old are the Cave Manuscripts?", in: Vetus Testamentum (1951)
* "The Hebrew Scripts"; 2 Bde., Leiden 1954–57, 1971
* "Die jiddische Sprache"; Hamburg 1974, 1986
* "Yiddish - A Survey and a Grammar", Toronto 1979
* "Zur Geschichte der u-Laute im Jiddischen"; in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie (1981)


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