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Fishman, Joshua Aaron was born on July 18, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Aaron S. and Sonia (Horwitz) Fishman.
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Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow; Status Planning: The Tshernovits Conference of 1908; Stock-taking: Where are we now? Each section is prefaced by an introduction. In addition there are also five papers written in Yiddish. The work emphasises an empirical and theoretical approach to the growing Ultra-Orthodox sector, that until now, has largely been ignored. Fishman's interest in Yiddish (among other Jewish languages) has previously been difficult to access and it is hoped that the appearance of this book will go some way toward alleviating this situation. The volume also includes a statistical appendix bringing together data on Yiddish for the past 100 years from the Czarist Empire, the USSR, Poland, Israel, the USA, and other parts of the world. This extensive and enlightening study should be of interest to sociolinguists and all those engaged in efforts on behalf of small languages everywhere.
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This text presents an analysis and interpretation of the thematic content of statements of praise and committment pertaining to a sample of vernacular languages from all over the world. It attempts to describe, classify, interpret and make comparisons in connection with the positive content of ethnolinguistic consciousness. Among the questions asked are: what are the positive views about the vernaculars that have been expressed by peoples all over the world?; are there any regularities to these views, across time and across space?; and are there common and less common themes, and, if so, which are which?
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Fishman, Joshua Aaron was born on July 18, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Aaron S. and Sonia (Horwitz) Fishman.
Bachelor of Science, Master of Science (Mayor Philadelphia competitive scholar 1944-1948), University Pennsylvania, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1953. Ped.D. (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1968.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Free University Brussels, 1986.
Teacher elementary and secondary Yiddish secular schools, 1945-1950. Educational psychologist, senior research associate department research and experimentation Jewish Education Committee New York, 1951-1954. From lecturer to visiting professor psychology City College of New York, 1955-1958.
Research associate to director research College Entrance Examination Board, 1955-1958. Associate professor human relations and psychology University Pennsylvania, 1958-1960. Professor psychology and sociology, dean Graduate School Education Yeshiva University, 1960-1966, distinguished university research professor social science Ferkauf Graduate School Psychology, 1966-1988, emeritus, since 1988, university vice president academy affairs, 1973-1976.
Visiting researcher, visiting professor Stanford (California) University, since 1990. Cummings lecturer McGill University, 1979. Linguistics Society of America professor Linguistics Institute, 1980.
Distinguished visiting professor Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, summers 1985, 2000. Member committee on sociolinguistics Social Science Research Council. Adviser, consultant American Jewish Congress, National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, College Entrance Examination Board, American Association Jewish Education, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Ireland.
Consultant Center for Applied Linguistics, International Research Center on Bilingualism, Secretariat Linguistic Policy Basque Government, since 1986, Maori Language Commission, since 1995. Visiting professor linguistics Long Island University, 2000, New York University, since 1998, Graduate Center City University of New York, since 1999. Board directors Consortium for Study of Language Problems, since 2001.
Expert witness Ministry of Education Edmonton Province Canada, 1995. Foreign member Royal Academy Bosque Language, 2010.
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Fellow American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association, American Anthropological Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Educational Research Association, Linguistic Society of America, Yivo Institute Jewish Research, National Association Bilingual Education (Man of Year 1992), Teachers English to Speakers Other Languages, Terralingua.
Married Gella Jeanne Schweid, December 23, 1951. Children: M. Manuel, David Elliot, Avrom Avi.
