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Neil Jacobs

Neil Jacobs

Neil Jacobs

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Professor Emeritus, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Email
Email Neil Jacobs jacobs.8@osu.edu

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Areas of Expertise

  • Yiddish phonology & morphology
  • history of the Yiddish language
  • Yiddish linguistic geography
  • Post-Yiddish Jewish ethnolects (especially of German and Dutch)
  • use of language in Jewish cabaret
  • ethnography of Ashkenazic Jewish speech
  • the linguistic performance of Jewishness

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