Linguistics

Chaya Nove Shares Insights on Yiddish Variation in Vienna

This summer, Postdoctoral Research Associate Chaya Nove delivered two lectures in Vienna, Austria, on the theme of Yiddish language variation.

On July 9, Chaya Nove spoke at YUNG YiDiSH WIEN as part of their Contemporary Yiddish Culture series. Her lecture, titled "The Origins of Hasidic Yiddish," addressed the sociohistorical and cultural origins of Hasidic Yiddish. Later that week, she presented at the 12th International Conference for Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE12) at the University of Vienna. Her presentation, "From tsuzamen to tsam: Tracing the European origins of a Hasidic Yiddish morpheme," focused on the usage patterns of the Yiddish morpheme tsuzamen ('together'), comparing historical data from the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe with contemporary data from sociolinguistic interviews with Yiddish speakers in New York.