Thursday 8 November 2018

ALFRED FIRST


ALFRED FIRST (b. ca. 1865)
            He was born in Eisenstadt in the former Austria-Hungary.  He lived in Vienna and in Budapest.  He studied philosophy and philology at the University of Vienna and received his doctoral degree.  He authored many works in German and Hungarian in the field of folklore and linguistics, among them one on “ordinary life and customs on the Jewish street in Eisenstadt” (1908), 80 pp.  This work is an important source on the Jewish community, Yiddish language, and the condition of the old Jewish community.  His work “Folkloristish-lingvistishe materyaln fun ungarn” (Folkloric-linguistic materials from Hungary) was published in Yivo-bleter (Pages from YIVO) (Vilna) 14 (1939), pp. 436-56.

Source: Yivo-biblyografye, 1925-1941 (YIVO bibliography, 1925-1941) (New York, 1943), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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