Wikipedia's first sentence called it “yiddish linguist and hebrew paleographer”. Today it says “yiddish linguist and hebrew palaeographer who was born in vienna and died in toronto”.
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Birnbaum was the oldest son of Nathan Birnbaum and Rosa Korngut. He served in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army , and then studied and attained a doctorate from the University of Würzburg . From 1922 to 1933, he filled the first worldwide Yiddish Chair at the University of Hamburg . After the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) in Germany, Birnbaum escaped with his wife, Irene Gruenwald and his children to Great Britain . From 1936 to 1957, Birnbaum was a lecturer on Hebrew paleography and epigraphy at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London . Starting in 1938, he taught Yiddish at the same time at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London. During World War II , Birmbaum worked in the postal censorship for the British authorities. In 1970, Birnbaum immigrated to Toronto ( Canada ).1
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Solomon Birnbaum , also Salomo , Solomon A or Solomon Asher , (December 24, 1891 in Vienna – December 28, 1989 in Toronto ) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew paleographer .
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Solomon Asher Birnbaum , also Salomo Birnbaum ( Shlomo Barenboym , December 24, 1891 in Vienna – December 28, 1989 in Toronto ) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew palaeographer ." Birnbaum, Salomo (Solomon Asher Birnbaum) " (2002).
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Solomon Asher Birnbaum , also Salomo Birnbaum ( Shloyme Birnboym , December 24, 1891 in Vienna – December 28, 1989 in Toronto ) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew palaeographer . " Birnbaum, Salomo (Solomon Asher Birnbaum) " (2002).
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Austrian Yiddish linguist and Hebrew paleographer Solomon Asher Birnbaum , also Salomo Birnbaum ( Yiddish : שלמה בירנבוים Shloyme Birnboym , December 24, 1891 – December 28, 1989) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew palaeographer who was born in Vienna and died in Toronto . " Birnbaum, Salomo (Solomon Asher Birnbaum) " (2002).
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yiddish linguist and hebrew paleographer
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yiddish linguist and hebrew palaeographer who was born in vienna and died in toronto
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