Max Weinreich

American/Latvian linguist (1894-1969) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 74

Max Weinreich was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich.

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