Alexander Beider
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Beider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Beider |
| SIGNATURE | BEIDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Délégation Paris 6 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9853-1445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Karaites: Their Names and Migration Routes
The article provides an analysis of the geographic origins of Karaites in four areas where Karaite congregations were commonly found after the Middle Ages, namely, Arabic Middle East (territories of modern Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt), Constantinople/Istanbul and its area, the Crimean Peninsula, and Eastern European territories belonging today to Lithuania and Ukraine. It combines available historical, onomastic, and linguistic data revealing …
Surnames of Jewish People in the Land of Israel from the Sixteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
This paper outlines a study of surnames used by various Jewish groups in the Land of Israel for Ashkenazic Jews, prior to the First Aliyah (1881), and for Sephardic and Oriental Jews up to the end of the 1930s. For the 16th–18th centuries, the surnames of Jews who lived in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron can be mainly extracted from the rabbinic literature. For the 19th century, by far the richest collection is provided by the materials of…
Surnames of Georgian Jews: Historical and Linguistic Aspects
The article provides an analysis of several aspects of the corpus of surnames used by Jews who lived after the end of the Middle Ages in the territory that today corresponds to the Republic of Georgia. One section covers historical aspects: the earliest attestations and their exact status and the period when the use of surnames became stabilized. The next two sections discuss morphological aspects: the endings found in the surnames and historical…
Gascon et français chez les israélites d’Aquitaine. Documents et inventaire lexical, written by Nahon, Peter
The Notion of ‘Jewish Surnames’
This article discusses the notion of ‘Jewish surnames,’ considering it to be synonymous to the expression ‘surnames borne by Jews.’ This can be particularly helpful if we want the definition to add real value for the search of etymologies. The article describes most important peculiarities of Jewish surnames, categories of names that are exclusively Jewish, and various cases when a surname is shared by both Jews and non-Jews. It shows that certai…
Jews of Berber Origin: Myth or Reality
Este artigo aborda as ideias da teoria dos Judeus Berberes que, implicando sobretudo a utilização de argumentos onomásticos, argumenta que os judeus que viveram no Magrebe durante os últimos séculos descendem parcialmente de prosélitos berberes. Na verdade, a origem berbere é válida apenas para um nome e várias dezenas de sobrenomes judaicos de Marrocos, bem como para alguns sobrenomes judaicos no leste da Argélia. Estes nomes surgem nas comunida…
Unity of the German component of Yiddish: Myth or Reality
The article deals with the question of the unity of the German component of Yiddish. Before the 16th century, the languages used in works compiled by various Jewish authors from western German-speaking provinces show close similarities to dialects spoken by local Christians and do not represent texts written in a single specifically Jewish language. Texts dating from the 16th to 17th centuries demonstrate the existence of two separate Jewish idio…
Reapplying the Language Tree Model to the History of Yiddish
The article discusses several definitions of the notion of Yiddish that exist in linguistic studies. The Germanistic approach emphasizes differences between various German and Yiddish dialects. The Judeo-Centric approach, developed during the second half of the 20th century as an alternative method to that used by the Germanistic school, puts the uninterrupted chain of languages spoken by Jews in the center of its linguistic analysis. For the rep…
Yiddish Proto-Vowels and German Dialects
This paper suggests a series of schemas aimed at eliminating the main drawbacks of existing schemas of Yiddish proto-vowels. It attempts to complete the schemas developed by other scholars mainly in two aspects, proposing derivational rules that (1) account for Proto-Western Yiddish and its sub-dialects and (2) explain the relation between the vowels of the German donor language and Yiddish proto-vowels. This analysis shows the impossibility of c…
Scientific Approach to Etymology of Surnames
The aim of this paper is to show a possible approach in the domain of etymology of surnames for which the label “scientific” would be appropriate. It discusses the reasons of the law status of that branch of onomastics in scholarly circles. A scientific approach asks to provide a conjecture that would be the most corroborated by various factors among which are: answers, correlated with the etymon and between them, provided to other main questions…
The Birth of Yiddish and the Paradigm of the Rhenish Origin of Ashkenazic Jews
This paper introduces a methodology to approach the question of the origins of Yiddish. It stresses the importance of defining the exact geographical locations and time frames of various elements of Yiddish, distinguishing between those peculiar to that tongue as a whole and those of only regional significance. Also of interest is the distinction between elements unique to Yiddish and those shared with German and Slavic languages. These methodolo…
Jewish Given Names in Eastern Europe
The paper provides a detailed analysis of given names used by Jews on the terri¬ tory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which roughly corresponds to modern Ukraine, Belorussia and Lithuania) during the 15th-16th centuries. The discussion is focused on the inventory of these names and its impact on historiography and philology. The onomastic material provides no corroboration for the common theory of the continuous presence of Jewish communities in…
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Jewish Given Names in Eastern Europe
The paper provides a detailed analysis of given names used by Jews on the terri¬ tory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which roughly corresponds to modern Ukraine, Belorussia and Lithuania) during the 15th-16th centuries. The discussion is focused on the inventory of these names and its impact on historiography and philology. The onomastic material provides no corroboration for the common theory of the continuous presence of Jewish communities in…
The Birth of Yiddish and the Paradigm of the Rhenish Origin of Ashkenazic Jews
This paper introduces a methodology to approach the question of the origins of Yiddish. It stresses the importance of defining the exact geographical locations and time frames of various elements of Yiddish, distinguishing between those peculiar to that tongue as a whole and those of only regional significance. Also of interest is the distinction between elements unique to Yiddish and those shared with German and Slavic languages. These methodolo…
Scientific Approach to Etymology of Surnames
The aim of this paper is to show a possible approach in the domain of etymology of surnames for which the label “scientific” would be appropriate. It discusses the reasons of the law status of that branch of onomastics in scholarly circles. A scientific approach asks to provide a conjecture that would be the most corroborated by various factors among which are: answers, correlated with the etymon and between them, provided to other main questions…
Yiddish Proto-Vowels and German Dialects
This paper suggests a series of schemas aimed at eliminating the main drawbacks of existing schemas of Yiddish proto-vowels. It attempts to complete the schemas developed by other scholars mainly in two aspects, proposing derivational rules that (1) account for Proto-Western Yiddish and its sub-dialects and (2) explain the relation between the vowels of the German donor language and Yiddish proto-vowels. This analysis shows the impossibility of c…
Reapplying the Language Tree Model to the History of Yiddish
The article discusses several definitions of the notion of Yiddish that exist in linguistic studies. The Germanistic approach emphasizes differences between various German and Yiddish dialects. The Judeo-Centric approach, developed during the second half of the 20th century as an alternative method to that used by the Germanistic school, puts the uninterrupted chain of languages spoken by Jews in the center of its linguistic analysis. For the rep…
Unity of the German component of Yiddish: Myth or Reality
The article deals with the question of the unity of the German component of Yiddish. Before the 16th century, the languages used in works compiled by various Jewish authors from western German-speaking provinces show close similarities to dialects spoken by local Christians and do not represent texts written in a single specifically Jewish language. Texts dating from the 16th to 17th centuries demonstrate the existence of two separate Jewish idio…
Jews of Berber Origin: Myth or Reality
Este artigo aborda as ideias da teoria dos Judeus Berberes que, implicando sobretudo a utilização de argumentos onomásticos, argumenta que os judeus que viveram no Magrebe durante os últimos séculos descendem parcialmente de prosélitos berberes. Na verdade, a origem berbere é válida apenas para um nome e várias dezenas de sobrenomes judaicos de Marrocos, bem como para alguns sobrenomes judaicos no leste da Argélia. Estes nomes surgem nas comunida…
The Notion of ‘Jewish Surnames’
This article discusses the notion of ‘Jewish surnames,’ considering it to be synonymous to the expression ‘surnames borne by Jews.’ This can be particularly helpful if we want the definition to add real value for the search of etymologies. The article describes most important peculiarities of Jewish surnames, categories of names that are exclusively Jewish, and various cases when a surname is shared by both Jews and non-Jews. It shows that certai…
Gascon et français chez les israélites d’Aquitaine. Documents et inventaire lexical, written by Nahon, Peter
Surnames of Jewish People in the Land of Israel from the Sixteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
This paper outlines a study of surnames used by various Jewish groups in the Land of Israel for Ashkenazic Jews, prior to the First Aliyah (1881), and for Sephardic and Oriental Jews up to the end of the 1930s. For the 16th–18th centuries, the surnames of Jews who lived in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron can be mainly extracted from the rabbinic literature. For the 19th century, by far the richest collection is provided by the materials of…
Surnames of Georgian Jews: Historical and Linguistic Aspects
The article provides an analysis of several aspects of the corpus of surnames used by Jews who lived after the end of the Middle Ages in the territory that today corresponds to the Republic of Georgia. One section covers historical aspects: the earliest attestations and their exact status and the period when the use of surnames became stabilized. The next two sections discuss morphological aspects: the endings found in the surnames and historical…
Karaites: Their Names and Migration Routes
The article provides an analysis of the geographic origins of Karaites in four areas where Karaite congregations were commonly found after the Middle Ages, namely, Arabic Middle East (territories of modern Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt), Constantinople/Istanbul and its area, the Crimean Peninsula, and Eastern European territories belonging today to Lithuania and Ukraine. It combines available historical, onomastic, and linguistic data revealing …
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