*IN YIDDISH* Isaac Bleaman, Der sotsyolingvistisher tsugang tsu der yidish-forshung
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Himel Family Yiddish Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Al and Malka Green Fund in Yiddish Studies
Isaac Bleaman (University of California, Berkley)
This talk (delivered in Yiddish) will explore what quantitative research in sociolinguistics can teach us about the maintenance of Yiddish as a community language in New York. We will also get a preview of the resources that are being made available in the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (yiddishcorpus.org), a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimony interviews.
Isaac L. Bleaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and an affiliate of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include sociolinguistic variation and minority language maintenance. He addresses these broad areas by analyzing how individuals and communities speak and write in Yiddish. He recently received a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a corpus of conversational Yiddish using archival Holocaust survivor testimonies. Bleaman holds a PhD and MA in Linguistics from New York University, an MSt in Yiddish Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Linguistics and Comparative Literature from Stanford University.
This event is conducted entirely in Yiddish.