Max Weinreich (Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.
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1893 Goldingen, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (modern Kuldīga, Latvia)
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29 January 1969 (aged 75) New York City, New York, U.S.
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