Zalman Reisen
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Zalman Reisen, sometimes spelled Zalman Reyzen, was a lexicographer and literary historian of Yiddish literature.
Reisen in 1925
Max Weinreich
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Max Weinreich was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich.
Zalman Reisen
…der nayer yidisher literatur, which remains one of the definitive reference works in the field. In February 1925, Reisen organized a conference with Max Weinreich to discuss Nochum Shtif's recent call for a Yiddish institute of higher education. The conference enthusiastically endorsed the idea, and that date is…
Weinreich in Vilna, 1929
Weinreich (standing, second from left) among Kuldīga Bundists, 1913