Birnbaum

Solomon Birnbaum (Salomon, Solomon A[scher] Birnbaum or Solomon Ascher) was a Yiddish and Hebrew linguist and art historian.
From 1936 to 1957, Solomon Birnbaum was a lecturer on Hebrew paleography and epigraphy at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
From 1938, he taught at the same time at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the Yiddish University ("East European Jewish Studies").

Solomon Birnbaum's Publications:
* Praktische Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache; Vienna and Leipzig, 1918; in: Grammatik der jiddischen
* Sprache, Hamburg 1966, 1979, 1984
* Leben und Worte des Balschemm; 1920
* Das hebräische und aramäische Element in der jiddischen Sprache; 1921 (Dissertation)
* Die jiddische Sprache; in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift (1923) * Die Umschrift des Jiddischen; in: Teuthonista (1933)
* the Age of the Yiddish Language; in: Transactions of the Philological Society, London 1939
* Jewish Languages; in: Essays in Honour of the Very Rev. Dr. J.H. Hertz, London 1944 (1942)
* Yiddish Phrase Book; hg. v. The Linguaphone Institute for The Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, London 1945
* The Cultural Structure of East Ashkenazic Jewry; in: The Slavonic and East European Review, London 1946
* The Verb in the Bukharic Language of Samarkand; in: Archivum Linguisticum 2 (1950/51)
* How old are the Cave Manuscripts?, in: Vetus Testamentum (1951)
* The Hebrew Scripts; 2 Bde., Leiden 1954–57, 1971 * Die jiddische Sprache; Hamburg 1974, 1986
* Yiddish - A Survey and a Grammar, Toronto 1979
* Zur Geschichte der u-Laute im Jiddischen; in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie (1981)