Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry

FAIN: RT-*0569-78

Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
Marvin I. Herzog (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To support the preparation of a language and culture atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry.

To complete the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, a four-volume comparative study of the physical and cultural barriers that affected the fragmentation of the Jewish and non-Jewish populations which co-existed in Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. The first two volumes of maps will be ready for camera-ready copy by spring 1979, with volumes III and IV to follow at one-year intervals. The atlas will be a significant contribution to the fields of Yiddish and Jewish studies, and will preserve much of the linguistic and cultural