Gothic Yiddish

In his "History of the Yiddish Language" (1973) Max Weinreich regarded the 13th century as a turning point in the history of the Y...

The Role of Crimean Gothic in the Formation of the Eastern Yiddish Dialects As readers of this blog know, my research has led me to some ...

I want to give a quick overview of how I see the Yiddish dialects emerging from a Gothic system. Early Yiddish developed out of Gothic in pa...

Yiddish is well represented by written texts starting at about 1400. There are some earlier traces of written Yiddish that go back about 100...

I last posted on this blog in October, 2009. Since then a number of irresistable new opportunities have appeared which have competed for my ...

Proto-Germanic is commonly reconstructed as lacking a short 'o' phoneme. The subsequent development of short 'o' can be look...