Monday, 4 February 2019

JOHANN MICHEL KOCH


JOHANN MICHEL KOCH
            He was a Christian theologian who published a short treatise on the Yiddish language: Brevis Manuductio ad lectionem scriptorium Judaeorum Germanicorum (A brief guide to reading and writing Judeo-German) (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1709).

Sources: B. Borokhov, Di biblyotek fun dem yidishn filolog (The library of the Yiddish philologist), in Pinkes (Warsaw) 2 (1913); Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; F. C. B. Avé-Lallemant, Das deutsche Gaunerthum (German thievery), vol. 3 (Leipzig, 1862), pp. 217-18.
Dovid Katz


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