{{Short description|Russian linguist (born 1963)}} {{family name hatnote|Borisovich|Beider|lang=Eastern Slavic}} thumb| '''Alexander Borisovich Beider''' ({{langx|ru|Александр Борисович Бейдер}}, {{IPA|ru|ɐlʲɪkˈsandr bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲejdʲɪr|IPA}}; {{langx|yi|אלכסנדר ביידער}}, {{IPA|yi|alɛkˈsandər ˈbɛɪdər|IPA}}; born 1963) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
==Biography== Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1989 he received a PhD in applied mathematics from the same institution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opac.mpei.ru/OpacUnicode/app/webroot/index.php?url=/notices/index/17244/default/189951#|title=Электронный каталог -Бейдер А. Б. - Статистический анализ ДН ФАР при дискретных законах распределения амплитудных и фазовых ошибок : ...- Absopac|website=opac.mpei.ru}}</ref> Since 1990, he lives with his family in Paris, France.
His works deal with etymology and geographic distribution of Jewish surnames, traditional Yiddish given names, methodological principles of studying names, and the 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.<ref>''Beider, A.'' Les prénoms des juifs ashkénazes: histoire et migrations (in French). Thèse soutenue à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études. Section des Sciences Religieuses sous la direction de Gérard Nahon: Paris, 1999.</ref> He is also the co-author with Stephen P. Morse of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm.<ref>[http://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm.htm Beider–Morse Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits] - copy of Avotaynu: the International Review of Jewish Genealogy (Summer 2008)</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.002|title=Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century|last1=Waldman|first1=Shamam|last2=Backenroth|first2=Daniel|first3=Éadaoin|last3=Harney|first4=Stefan|last4=Flohr|first5=Nadia C.|last5=Neff|first6=Gina M.|last6=Buckley|first7=Hila|last7=Fridman|first8=Ali|last8=Akbari|first9=Nadin|last9=Rohland|first10=Swapan|last10=Mallick|first11=Iñigo|last11=Olalde|first12=Leo|last12=Cooper|first13=Ariel|last13=Lomes|first14=Joshua|last14=Lipson|first15=Jorge|last15=Cano Nistal|first16=Jin|last16=Yu|first17=Nir|last17=Barzilai|first18=Inga|last18=Peter|first19=Gil|last19=Atzmon|first20=Harry|last20=Ostrer|first21=Todd|last21=Lencz|first22=Yosef E.|last22=Maruvka|first23=Maike|last23=Lämmerhirt|first24=Alexander|last24=Beider|first25=Leonard V.|last25=Rutgers|first26=Virginie|last26=Renson|first27=Keith M.|last27=Prufer|first28=Stephan|last28=Schiffels|first29=Harald|last29=Ringbauer|first30=Karin|last30=Sczech|first31=Shai|last31=Carmi|first32=David|last32=Reich|date=8 December 2022|journal=Cell|volume=185|issue=25|pages=4703–4716.e16|pmid=36455558 |pmc=9793425 }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * Beider, A. 2019. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/Italy.html A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Italy, France and "Portuguese" Communities]. New Haven, CT: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. 2017. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/Maghreb.html A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Maghreb, Gibraltar, and Malta]. New Haven, CT: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. 2015. [https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739319.001.0001/acprof-9780198739319 Origins of Yiddish Dialects]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Beider, A. 2009. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/Handbook.htm Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants]. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. & Morse, S. P. 2008. [https://avotaynuonline.com/2008/07/beider-morse-phonetic-matching-an-alternative-to-soundex-with-fewer-false-hits-by-alexander-beider-and-stephen-p-morse/ Beider–Morse Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits. Avotaynu]: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy 24/2: 12-18. * Beider, A. 2005. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272255155_Scientific_Approach_to_Etymology_of_Surnames Scientific Approach to Etymology of Surnames. Names: A Journal of Onomastics] 53: 79-126. * Beider, A. 2004. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/DJSG.htm A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia]. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. 2001. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/dagn.htm A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migration] s. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. 1996. [https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3474015 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland]. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.["Best Judaica Reference Book" award for 1996] * Beider, A. 1995. [https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4699877 Jewish Surnames from Prague (15th-18th centuries)]. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu. * Beider, A. 1993, 2008. [http://www.avotaynu.com/books/DJSRE2.htm A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire]. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu.
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101031181059/http://jewish-languages.org/abeider.html Bibliography] * [http://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm.htm Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching] * [http://iijg.org/about-us/officers/beider/ Profile at International Institute for Jewish Genealogy] * [https://ingeveb.org/articles/new-yiddish-dialectology The New Yiddish Dialectology: A Review of Alexander Beider’s ''The Origins of Yiddish Dialects''] {{Authority control}}
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