Marvin Herzog | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | September 13, 1927
Died | June 28, 2013 | (aged 85)
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Yiddish |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | Uriel Weinreich |
Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (September 13, 1927 – June 28, 2013) was a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University.
Herzog received his Ph.D. from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich.
In 1967, he became the director, and then the editor-in-chief, of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction with YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ).[1]