The Disappearance of Yiddish in Russia and Elsewhere in the FSU

Nov 22, 2015 by

The Disappearance of Yiddish in Russia and Elsewhere in the FSU

A century ago Yiddish was the predominant language of Jews in the Russian Empire; three of my four grandparents, born in 1900s-1920s spoke Yiddish as their mother tongue. Yet according to the 2010 population census, only about 30,000...

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Ukraine’s Ethnolinguistic Landscape—and Changing Attitudes towards Rus...

Apr 22, 2015 by

Ukraine’s Ethnolinguistic Landscape—and Changing Attitudes towards Russia and the Russian Language

On April 20, 2015, I gave a lecture on the ethnolinguistic aspects of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. After reviewing the events since the late fall of 2013 and the current humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine, I turned to...

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