Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddis. His son is the linguist Uriel Weinreich.

He is known for popularising the phrase 'A language is a dialect with an army and navy'.1

His work also included translating and editing songs in Yiddish, like Yidishe folkslider mit melodyes

 

1 It published in Weinreich's article Der YIVO un di problemen fun undzer tsayt, January–February 1945, pp. 13.

Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.



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