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European Jewry was largely destroyed during World War II, and its survivors were displaced by emigration and international migration. It was a matter of the greatest urgency to reconstruct the geography of Ashkenazic folk culture and of European Yiddish while reliable testimony could still be gathered from emigrant informants.
The »Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry« (LCAAJ), conceived for this purpose by Uriel Weinreich, is based on an investigation conducted among emigrant informants. Since Weinreich's death in 1967, the investigation has been directed by Martin Herzog. Since November 1991, the preparation of the LCAAJ has been under the aegis of an editorial collegium with Marvin Herzog as editor-in-chief. Its 'design' reflects the diversity of Weinreich's contributions to Yiddish studies and to theories of bilingual dialectology, structural dialectology, and the study of language and culture 'at-a-distance'.
Volume 4 of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry (LCAAJ) portrays the continuity between Yiddish and German, based on genetic affinity and evident in geographical proximity. The focus is on the interaction between German and Eastern Yiddish, the eastern branch of the Ashkenazi Jewish language, which is generally meant when speaking of Yiddish.
Ulrike Kiefer, Förderverein für Jiddische Sprache und Kultur e.V..
