Alexander Borisovich Beider (Russian : Александр Борисович Бейдер , IPA: [ ɐlʲɪkˈsandr bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbejdʲɪr] Yiddish : אלכסנדר ביידער , IPA: [ alɛkˈsandər ˈbɛɪdər] onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish .
Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1989 he received a PhD in applied mathematics from the same institution.[1] Paris , France.
His works deal with etymology and geographic distribution of Jewish surnames , traditional Yiddish given names, methodological principles of studying names, and the history of Yiddish . His papers have been published by scholarly journals in US, France, Israel, Poland, and Russia. In 1999, he received his PhD in Jewish studies , from the Sorbonne , with thesis about Ashkenazic Jewry names.[2] Stephen P. Morse of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm .[3]
Beider "provided historical context on Jewish origins" to a team of genetic researchers studying Jews from 14th-century Erfurt , Germany and became listed as a co-author of their final paper.[4]
Beider, A. 2019. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Italy, France and "Portuguese" Communities . New Haven, CN: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. 2017. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Maghreb, Gibraltar, and Malta . New Haven, CN: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. 2015. Origins of Yiddish Dialects . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Beider, A. 2009. Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants . Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. & Morse, S. P. 2008. Beider–Morse Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits. Avotaynu : The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 24/2: 12-18.
Beider, A. 2005. Scientific Approach to Etymology of Surnames. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 53: 79-126.
Beider, A. 2004. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia . Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. 2001. A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migration s. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. 1996. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland . Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.["Best Judaica Reference Book" award for 1996]
Beider, A. 1995. Jewish Surnames from Prague (15th-18th centuries) . Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. 1993, 2008. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire . Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
Beider, A. Les prénoms des juifs ashkénazes: histoire et migrations (in French). Thèse soutenue à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études. Section des Sciences Religieuses sous la direction de Gérard Nahon: Paris, 1999.
Waldman, Shamam; Backenroth, Daniel; Harney, Éadaoin; Flohr, Stefan; Neff, Nadia C.; Buckley, Gina M.; Fridman, Hila; Akbari, Ali; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Olalde, Iñigo; Cooper, Leo; Lomes, Ariel; Lipson, Joshua; Cano Nistal, Jorge; Yu, Jin; Barzilai, Nir; Peter, Inga; Atzmon, Gil; Ostrer, Harry; Lencz, Todd; Maruvka, Yosef E.; Lämmerhirt, Maike; Beider, Alexander; Rutgers, Leonard V.; Renson, Virginie; Prufer, Keith M.; Schiffels, Stephan; Ringbauer, Harald; Sczech, Karin; Carmi, Shai; Reich, David (8 December 2022). "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century" . Cell . 185 (25): 4703–4716.e16. doi :10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.002 . PMC 9793425 PMID 36455558 . 
