Mordkhe Schaechter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mordkhe Schaechter

Yiddish linguist, writer and educator

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Feb-2007

Profession: writer, linguist, dialectologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter (Yiddish: ????? ????? ???????; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.
Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe.
He was also the third editor of Afn Shvel (1957–2004), a prestigious Yiddish magazine.
He died on February 15, 2007 after a long bout of illness following a stroke in the summer of 2001.