Forward, December 3rd, 2004
Philologos Forward 12-03-2004 Dovid Katz, whose newly published "Words On Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish" was reviewed in the Forward recently, is one-of-a-kind in the Jewish world -- a roving, long-bearded scholar (born in New York, he now, according to the book's jacket cover, "divides his time between Lithuania and North Wales") who, one has the impression, would rather spend his time conversing in Yiddish to the last Jew in a Belarussian shtetl than presiding over a seminar. I met him once, a decade ago, at the Forward. The Forward's then-editor, Seth Lipsky, had arranged a debate...
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