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Yiddish Given Names - A Lexicon (Hardcover)
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Yiddish Given Names - A Lexicon (Hardcover)
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This important volume in onomastics, the study of names, presents a
listing of Yiddish first names in the modern period: 1750 to the
present day. Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon resumes, collects,
documents, and corrects the available body of research on Yiddish
given names. It aims to establish the modern corpus and give the
origins of the names therein. Rella Israly Cohn has amassed and
preserved a number of names that have become extremely rare, almost
to the point of disappearing, and correctly identified their
sources using a number of works both commonly available and
difficult to find. The book begins with preliminary material that
orients the reader, explains technical terms and classifications,
and describes the evolution of Yiddish names throughout their
history. Following is the lexicon itself, which is comprised of
over 250 names with variant forms and alphabetized according to the
English transliteration. Each entry relates the Yiddish name to its
source language, shows a source form, and gives the attestations of
the name in its various forms in the earliest written works.
Concluding with several appendixes that offer additional
information and assist in reference and accessibility, this
significant work will serve scholars in onomastics, linguistics,
and Yiddish and will be of interest to both scholars and laypersons
researching their family history or the cultural legacy of the
Jewish community worldwide.
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