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Alexander Beider

Academic Affiliation

• Independent scholar, France

Contact Information

• Email: albeider @ yahoo.fr
• Website: http://www.iijg.org/home/beider.html

Research Interests

Jewish Onomastics

• Beider, A. To appear. Etymology of Sephardic Surnames: Achievements and Perspectives.
• Beider, A. 2009. Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
• Beider, A. 2008. Names and Naming. In G. D. Hundert (ed.), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Beider, A. & Morse, S. P. 2008. Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits. Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 24/2: 12-18.
• Beider, A. 2007. Some Issues in Ashkenazic Name Searches. Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 23/1: 3-13.
• Beider, A. 2005. Two Approaches in Jewish Onomastics: Books by Menk and the Guggenheimers. Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 22/2: 35-41.
• Beider, A. 2005. A Scientific Approach to the Etymologies of Jewish Surnames. Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 21/1: 9-12, 37-45.
• Beider, A. 2005. Scientific Approach to Etymology of Surnames. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 53: 79-126.
• Beider, A. 2004. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.
• Beider, A. 2003. Jewish Family Names. In P. Hanks (ed.), Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press. LXXVI-LXXXI.
• Beider, A. 2001. A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migrations. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.
• Beider, A. 1996. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
• Beider, A. 1995. Jewish Surnames from Prague (15th-18th centuries). Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
• Beider, A. 1993, 2008². A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.

History of Yiddish

• Beider, A. 2010 (to appear). Unity of the Hebrew Component of Western and Eastern Yiddish. In: W. Moskovich (ed.). Czernowitz Conference, 2009.
• Beider, A. 2010 (to appear). Yiddish Protovowels and German Dialects. Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
• Beider, A. 2004. The Birth of Yiddish and the Paradigm of the Rhenish Origin of Ashkenazic Jews. Revue des études juives 163/1-2: 193-244.
• Beider, A. 2001. A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migrations. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.