Alexander Beider holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of several etymological dictionaries of Ashkenazic surnames and given names and a number of papers dealing with the history of Yiddish. He is the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.

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• Introduction ; 1. Main concepts and classifications ; 2. The German component ; 3. The Hebrew component ; 4. Romance elements ; 5. Slavic elements ; 6. Sound changes and dialects ; Conclusion ; Appendix A: The Yiddish dialect of PhilogLottus 1733 ; Appendix B: Germans and German language in Poland ; Appendix C: Origins of Ashkenazic Jewry ; Glossary ; References ; Index

Alexander Beider holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of several etymological dictionaries of Ashkenazic surnames and given names and a number of papers dealing with the history of Yiddish. He is the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.

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• Introduction ; 1. Main concepts and classifications ; 2. The German component ; 3. The Hebrew component ; 4. Romance elements ; 5. Slavic elements ; 6. Sound changes and dialects ; Conclusion ; Appendix A: The Yiddish dialect of PhilogLottus 1733 ; Appendix B: Germans and German language in Poland ; Appendix C: Origins of Ashkenazic Jewry ; Glossary ; References ; Index

Alexander Beider holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of several etymological dictionaries of Ashkenazic surnames and given names and a number of papers dealing with the history of Yiddish. He is the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.

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• Introduction ; 1. Main concepts and classifications ; 2. The German component ; 3. The Hebrew component ; 4. Romance elements ; 5. Slavic elements ; 6. Sound changes and dialects ; Conclusion ; Appendix A: The Yiddish dialect of PhilogLottus 1733 ; Appendix B: Germans and German language in Poland ; Appendix C: Origins of Ashkenazic Jewry ; Glossary ; References ; Index