The late Max Weinreich was cofounder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna and one of the world’s most important scholars of the Yiddish language. He completed History of the Yiddish Language, his magnum opus, shortly before his death. Max Weinreich used psychoanalytic precepts to study the psychology of Eastern European adolescents, and translated four of Freud’s works into Yiddish.
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Max Weinreich
Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People by Max Weinreich. Reprint with new introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert 1999 / Yale University Press / $20.00
This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers, historians, and scientists—in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.
