Editor's Note

Extract

Ber Borochov's Di oyfgabn fun der yidisher filologye (The Tasks of Yiddish Philology) first appeared in 1913 in the academic journal, Der pinkes: yorbukh far der geshikhte fun der yidisher literatur un shprakh, far folklore, kritik un bibliografye, edited by Shmuel Niger and published by Kletskin (Kletskin farlag) in Vilna. The cover of the journal is reproduced in the appendix (fig. 1). The original article was not paginated. In 1966, a reprint appeared in a posthumous collection of Borochov's articles published in Tel Aviv by Brener, Shprakh-forshung un literatur-geshikhte (The Science of Linguistics and the History of Literature) (pages 53-75).