The importance of Yiddish will be discussed for the first time at the forthcoming International Congress of Linguists, it was announced here today.
A paper on the Yiddish language will be read by Max Weinreich, head of the philological section of the Jewish Scientific Institute.
The congress, held every three years, will open August 21 and continue to Sept. 6. The first meeting was held in the Hague in 1928.
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