How to Pronounce Mordkhe Schaechter
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Dec 01, 1927 Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine Died on 15 Feb 2007 (aged 79)
Yiddish linguist, writer and educator
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About Mordkhe Schaechter
- Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter (Yiddish: ????? ????? ???????; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.
- Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe.
- He was also the third editor of Afn Shvel (1957–2004), a prestigious Yiddish magazine.
- He died on February 15, 2007 after a long bout of illness following a stroke in the summer of 2001.
