Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg (August 30, 1898

Berne, Switzerland Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...

– February 14, 1989

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) was a Swiss pharmacist who worked in the field of Yiddish and Jewish history.

Biography

Guggenheim-Grünberg documented Swiss

Western Yiddish Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dia ...

shortly before its extinction in numerous publications and in sound recordings. She was also active in Swiss Jewish organizations, both nationally and internationally, in the 1930s and 40s. She was president of the Juedische Vereinigung in Zurich in 1950 and the editor of ''Beiträge zur Geschichte und Volkskunde der Juden in der Schweiz.''

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MIKHL HERZOG AND FLORENCE GUGGENHEIM-GRÜNBERG ON WESTERN YIDDISH (1965)
{{Switzerland-historian-stub Swiss women historians Linguists of Yiddish Swiss pharmacists 1898 births 1989 deaths People from Bern Academics from Zurich 20th-century Swiss Jews