#i use this stuff sooo often literally god bless you dovid

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literally thank you dovid katz for putting everything you’ve ever published online

(https://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_bibliography.htm -- his bibliography arranged by date here

https://www.dovidkatz.net/ -- and more of his stuff available here)

#i use this stuff sooo often literally god bless you dovid #i really really admire his commitment to collecting things and making them available to all #he's teaching a class in yivo over winter semester about the history of yiddish which has actually already filled up lol #there's also a class on death in the yiddish imagination #salivating at the mouth BUT they're both in english and both $325 and idk if i'm willing to pay $325 for an english class lol #54 and change per session -- i wonder actually if they intentionally made it (almost) a multiple of 18 lol #i think i might just email him and ask him for the bibliography he's going to use #also i DID take a class with him in the summer with the workers circle and he has the affect of...idk a gaon or sth #like he sounds like the type of voice you'd hear on a recording of a historical event #anyway i am finishing my incompletes from last semester so i am once more in the yiddish historical linguistics rabbithole #and i once again want to emphasize that from the very beginning the field of yiddish historical linguistics is a field of interpersonal beef #the moment a thought on the origins of yiddish even crossed one guy's mind the next guy was already furiously typing on his typewriter #but also many of them were really great scholars so a lot of them were like #YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU'RE A BITCH AND I HATE YOU BUT YOUR METHODS ARE GREAT AND THE WORK YOU DID CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THE FIELD #also a lot of great work on yiddish linguistics has been and continues to be done in german #bc that's who's doing work on comparative german(ic) linguistics #which means i might actually have to learn german eventually 😭 instead of what i've been doing which is ctrl+f term [term that i want] #and then running the surrounding paragraphs through google translate