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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