Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971

Yiddish Language and Culture, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquistion, Jewish Languages

Dr. Miriam Isaacs is a Visiting Associate Professor in Yiddish language and culture at the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Germanic Studies.

Recent Publications:

Volume editor (coedited with Lewis Glinert). "Pious Voices: Languages Among Ultra-orthodox Jews". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 138:3, 1999.

"Haredi, Haymish and Frim: Yiddish Vitality and Language Choice in a Multilingual Community". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 138, 1999. 9-30.

"Contentious Partners: Yiddish and Hebrew in Haredi Israel." International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 138, 1999. 101-121.

"The Sociolinguistic Development of Yiddish: Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries". Journal of Sociolinguistics. 5, 2001.

"Shards." Ed. Alan Berger and Bergert Naomi. Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators. Syracuse University Press, 2001.

"Yiddish in Orthodox Communities of Jerusalem". Ed. Kerler, Dov Ber. The Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature and Society. Altamira Press, 1998.

"Yiddish Language and Culture 'Then & Now': Creativity in Hasidic Communities". Ed. Leonard Greenspoon. Studies in Jewish Civilization. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1998.

Courses Taught:

Beginning Yiddish (GERM and JWST sections)

JWST 219M Yiddish Theater, Film and Popular Culture

Contact Information:

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies. (301) 405-0264. E-mail: misaacs@umd.edu
0142G Holzapfel Hall

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