Alexander Beider

Alexander Borisovich Beider (Russian: Александр Борисович Бейдер, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbejdʲɪr]; Yiddish: אלכסנדר ביידער, IPA: [alɛkˈsandər ˈbɛɪdər]) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic 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] He is also the co-author with 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.