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Shlomo Berger

Academic Affiliation

• University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contact Information

• Email: berger @ hum.uva.nl

Research Interests

Yiddish (Especially Pre-Modern: up to 1800)

• Berger, S. 2002. Travels among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue (Amsterdam 1764). Leiden: Brill-Styx.
• Berger, S. 2002. Ashkenazim Read Sephardim: Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries. In I. Zwiep et al. (eds.), Uprooted Roots: Amsterdam and the Early Sephardic Diaspora (Studia Rosenthaliana 35). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 253-265.
• Berger, S. 2002. Editing Pre-Modern Yiddish and the "Absence" of Text. Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 1: 219-226.
• Berger, S. 2002. Tsene-Rene: The Yiddish "National" Text. In M. Mathijsen & J. Leersen (eds), Oerteksten: nationalisme edities en canonvorming. Amsterdam: Instituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur. 125-130.