Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Main concepts and classifications
2: The German component
3: The Hebrew component
4: Romance elements
5: Slavic elements
6: Sound changes and dialects
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Yiddish dialect of PhilogLottus 1733
Appendix B: Germans and German language in Poland
Appendix C: Origins of Ashkenazic Jewry
Glossary
References
Index

About the Author

Alexander Beider holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of several etymological dictionaries of Ashkenazic surnames and given names and a number of papers dealing with the history of Yiddish. He is the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.