Dovid Katz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dovid Katz is an American-born Vilnius-based scholar, author, and educator specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian-Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. In recent years, he has been known for combating the so-called "Double Genocide" revision of Holocaust history which asserts a moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He is editor of the web journal Defending History which he founded in 2009. He is known to spend part of each year at his home in North Wales. His website includes a list of his books, of some articles by topic, a record of recent work, and a more comprehensive bibliography.
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- Grammar of the Yiddish Language (1987) (58)
- Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (2004) (49)
- Is Eastern European ‘Double Genocide’ Revisionism Reaching Museums? (2016) (16)
- The Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies (1990) (10)
- Yiddish and Power (2014) (8)
- The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture : from the eighteenth century to the present (1989) (6)
- Lithuanian Jewish Culture (2004) (5)
- Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005) (4)
- Origins of the Yiddish Language (1988) (4)
- The detonation of the Holocaust in 1941: a tale of two books (2011) (3)
- ORIGINS OF YIDDISH DIALECTOLOGY (1988) (3)
- The Wavering Yiddish Segolate: A Problem of Sociolinguistic Reconstruction (1980) (2)
- History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games (2014) (2)
- The Yiddish Conundrum: A Cautionary Tale for Language Revivalism (2018) (2)
- Notions of Yiddish (2018) (2)
- Explorations in the history of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (1982) (1)
- The Extraordinary Recent History of Holocaust Studies in Lithuania (2017) (1)
- THE CHILDREN OF HETH AND THE EGO OF LINGUISTICS: A STORY OF SEVEN YIDDISH MERGERS (1991) (1)
- Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction (2006) (1)
- Kristina Juraite, Epp Lauk and Vita Zelce The Professionalization of Journalism in the Baltic States: The Origins of Practices, Structures and Cultures (until 1940) 169 (2009) (1)
- Power of the Printing Press (2015) (0)
- Reviews (2013) (0)
- Short Notices (2006) (0)
- Religious Theories of Yiddish (2015) (0)
- Interwar Encounters with Official Status (2015) (0)
- ATLAS OF NORTHEASTERN YIDDISH: IMPORTANCE OF MAPS IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH (2011) (0)
- Anti-Semitism Targets Yiddish (2015) (0)
- A Milestone in Jewish Sociolinguistics (1978) (0)
- Power Shifts: West→East, Earlier→Later, Secular→Religious (2015) (0)
- Yiddishlands: A Memoir (2010) (0)
- THE ATLAS OF NORTHEASTERN YIDDISH: ON THE STATUS OF MAPS IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH (2011) (0)
- Women (and Men) of Eastern Ashkenaz (2015) (0)
- Oksforder Yiddish (Vol 1) (1990) (0)
- Origins of the Yiddish language : papers from the First Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, 15-17 December 1985 (1987) (0)
- Yiddish: biography of a language (2021) (0)
- The Oxford Conference in perspective (2013) (0)
- The posthumous Gaon of Vilna and the history of ideas (2005) (0)
- Women of Western Ashkenaz (2015) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (2010) (0)
- Yiddishless Yiddish Power vs Powerless Yiddish (2015) (0)
- A Yiddish Romance with Powerlessness (2015) (0)
- Gentile Culture Empowers Simple Jews (2015) (0)
- The Neo-Religious and the Jewish-Secular (2015) (0)
- German-Jewish Enlightenment also Targets Yiddish (2015) (0)
- PREFACE: ON THE SECOND WINTER SYMPOSIUM (1988) (0)
- Dialects of the Yiddish language : papers from the Second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, 14-16 December 1986 (1988) (0)
- Short Notices (1968) (0)
- In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe, by Adam Michnik (2012) (0)
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