"[1] Wiener left Europe with the plan of founding a vegetarian commune in British Honduras (now Belize).

[7] Wiener published articles on Yiddish linguistic elements in Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.

In 1898, Wiener traveled to Europe to collect material for his book The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1899).

He compiled a valuable anthology of Russian literature and translated 24 volumes of Lev Tolstoy's works into English,[8] a task which he completed in 24 months.

Norbert Wiener graduated from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, and then entered Tufts College.