[2] He earned his BA at Columbia University in 1948,[3] during which time he was also elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
[5] From 1951 to 1952 he was an editor and information specialist with the State Department at which point he joined Columbia University's faculty.
[8] He advocated the increased acceptance of semantics and compiled the iconic Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published shortly after his death.
However the essential inequality of these forms leads to speech which the native speakers of the target language consider inferior.
Weinreich was the mentor of both Marvin Herzog, with whom he laid the groundwork for the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and William Labov.