Remembering Mikhl Herzog

On Sunday, January 5, 2014, at 1:00 pm, YIVO will celebrate the life, work, and contributions to Yiddish culture of Mikhl Herzog, in a special memorial program.

Mikhl Herzog (1927-2013) was the founding Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at YIVO, and the editor-in-chief of the monumental project, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Beginning in 1968, Mikhl was Associate Professor, Professor, and then Chair of the Linguistics Department at Columbia University and the outstanding authority on Yiddish dialectology, and the historical and geographic dimensions of the Yiddish language and culture in Eastern Europe. Through his writings and teaching, Mikhl was responsible for training the next generation of Yiddish linguists, and fostering new research and study of Yiddish, ensuring that the Yiddish language and culture is remembered and understood.

Speakers at the event will include:
Eda Faye Herzog Vitto, Mikhl Herzog’s Granddaughter
Ulrike Kiefer, Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language and Culture, Duesseldorf, Germany
Robert Neumann, Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language and Culture, Duesseldorf, Germany
Sam Norich, Forward
Rakhmiel Peltz, Drexel University
Don Weinreich, Family Friend
Chava Lapin, YIVO Board
Andrew Sunshine, Columbia University

Lorin Sklamberg, of The Klezmatics, will perform a song in Mikhl’s honor.

Read more about Mikhl Herzog.

Attend the event.