Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,2 (1994) 29-35
Keywords:
Harkavy, Alexander,
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Jewish journalists History 20th century
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Yiddish periodicals
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Yiddish language Study and teaching
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Jews, East European
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Jews Languages
Note:
Alexander Harkavy was a lexicographer of Yiddish, a journalist, and a teacher. He was born in Nowogrodek, Belarus and immigrated to the U.S. in 1882. He was a lecturer for the Board of Education in New York, the Workmen's Circle, and the Jewish Teachers' Seminary. In 1928 he became a member of the Linguistics Section of YIVO. Harkavy compiled Yiddish-Hebrew-English dictionaries, and contributed to many Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals.
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