Jewish Language Research Website

Raysh Weiss

Academic Affiliation

• University of Minnesota, United States

Contact Information

• Email: raysh.weiss @ gmail.com

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Philosophy of language
• Etymology
• Language revival
• Yiddish orthographies
• Yiddish song translations
• Yiddish film
• Western Yiddish
• Judeo-German
• Yiddish folklore
• Yiddish/Hebrew modernist writers
• Hebrew (ancient and contemporary)

Publications

• Weiss, R. 2007 (forthcoming). Klezmer-Musik in Deutschland: Ein kulturelles Wiedererwachen. In R. Weiss (ed.), Cultural Necrophilia.
• Weiss, R. 2004. The Sexual Politics of Modern Hebrew. Juice Magazine (Northwestern University, Evanston) 6/11: 9-11.