The Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry
Contributors: Columbia University. Libraries
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: yid
Subjects: Ashkenazim; Social life and customs; Dialectology; Jews; Civilization; Historical geography; Multilingualism; Language surveys; Linguistic geography; Yiddish language; Dialects; History
Other titles: LCAAJ
Description: The Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies. The data that constitutes the LCAAJ was collected from 603 locations in Central and Eastern Europe carefully chosen to reflect the distribution of the Yiddish speaking population on the eve of World War II. This digital collection contains images of the written data portion of the archive. The written data is mostly single word answers, as would have been necessary for use by the project directors.
Notes: Primarily in Yiddish, English, and German.