Some considerations on [Indonesian] gov't language planning

[JoshuaAFishman at aol.com]

To see Uriel Weinreich described as a German linguist in   tghe nes-item from 
Indonesia is a double miscarriage of justice. He was initially a Jew fron 
Vilna (then in Poland) who came from a very famous and actively Jewish family. He 
escaped from Europe, with his father [the famous Yiddish linguist Max 
Weinreich] at the time of the German invasion of his homeland. He received his higher 
education in Columbia University (New York City) where he later held the 
endowed Atran chair in Yiddish Language and Culture, and also served as the chair 
of the Department of Linguistics until his untimely death at a very young age. 
The Lgpolicy -list should not permit errors such as those that I am reacting 
to to appear without some corrective footnote.
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