About Marvin Herzog
Lived 1927 – 2013 (aged 85). Marvin Herzog was a Canadian linguist and university teacher.
Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (September 13, 1927 – June 28, 2013) was a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University.
Biography Herzog received his Ph.D. from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich.
In 1967, he became the director, and then the editor-in-chief, of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction with YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ).
Books Herzog, Marvin I., The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland. Its Geography and History, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, and The Hague, Mouton & Co., 1965. Herzog, Marvin, et al. ed., YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, 3 vols., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1992–2000.
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Who was Marvin Herzog?
American linguist (1927-2013)
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Marvin Herzog was born on 13 September 1927 in Toronto.
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Marvin Herzog died on 28 June 2013.
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Marvin Herzog was a linguist and university teacher.
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Marvin Herzog was Canadian.
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