Wolf Moskovich ^People

Dr. Moskovich, who is also Professor Emeritus at Jerusalems HebrewUniversity, is considered the father of Ukrainian studies in Israel.His main fields of interest include Slavic studies (Ukrainian studies in parti-cular), Jewish culture and history in Eastern and Central Europe (Yiddish studies inparticular), interrelations between Jews and Christians, and languages and culturesin contact. He studied at Chernovtsi State University in Ukraine, received his Ph. D.(1965) from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, and Dr. Hab. (1971) from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. From 1965 to 1974 he was also seniorresearcher and laboratory director in computational linguistics and cognitive studies for the Committee for Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR, Moscow.From 1979 to 1989, Wolf Moskovich was the deputy editor-in-chief of the lexicographic project of the Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hebrew (Yiddish) Language, and since 1998 - President of the Valtrat Far Yiddish Un Yidisher Kultur - World Council of Yiddish and Jewish Culture (in Yiddish), taught an intensive Yiddish course at summer retreats organized by the council. Since 1998, he has been the head of the Jerusalem branch of the EYDES project for the digitization of Yiddish dialecto- logical material at the University of Dusseldorf. Member of the Board of the National Institution for Yiddish Affairs under the Knesset.