Max Weinreich 1894-1969: Yiddish Linguist, Literary Scholar, and Public Intellectual (2012)
While Weinreich was first and foremost a linguist, other topics he wrote about included psychology (he translated Freud into Yiddish), sociology, economics, theater studies, literary history, education, ethnography, and philosophy. He had a second career as a writer of popular articles in the Yiddish Forward, frequently under the pseudonym Sore Brener. His linguistic interests included the history of linguistics, orthography, grammar, etymology, dialectology, stylistics, and the influence of traditional Jewish culture in all its facets on the development of the Yiddish language.
In 1925, on the initiative of the linguist Nahum Shtif, the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut YIVO was founded in Berlin and began its work in Vilna; its first offices were located in a room in Weinreich's apartment.
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- Group photograph of the founders of American YIVO Section. Including, Weinreich, Shtazky, JL Kahan, Niger, Berezer, Odoner, Weiner, Eisner, Faks. New York, 1927.
- Founders of YIVO, including Max Weinreich, pose in front of the Institute's new unfinished building. Vilna, 1929.
- Chana Mlotek, Nee Gordon, and Zoza Szajkowski on the stairs of the YIVO building at 535 West 123rd Street. New York, 1945.
- Max Weinreich, with an unidentified person in Vilna. 1930.
- Weinreich drawing.
- Max Weinreich portrait.
- Opening the first crates of rescued materials at the Manischewitz company warehouse. Elkin, Niger, Weinreich. New York, 1947.
- Dr. Zemach Shabad reading to his grandsons, Uriel and Gabriel Winreich. Vilna, 1931.
- Max Weinreich teaches Yiddish at seminar at CCNY. New York, 1947.
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