This website contains the data basis of the DFG-funded (German Research Foundation) research project “Western Yiddish in the Long 19th Century” (2011–2016, Philipps University of Marburg). Our aim was to learn more about the source situation, the sociolinguistic setting, and the linguistic structure of selected phenomena. Here you can either browse our source collection (DWJ) via the Source Search, or search our database for specific linguistic phenomena. In the map module (KWJ) you will find maps of selected phenomena based on our sources.

The project focused on researching printed, predominantly literary sources of late Western Yiddish. Manuscripts and metatexts (e.g. grammars) are therefore not included in our database.

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