Henry Kahane
Henry Kahane · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist of Romance and Mediterranean languages and their cultural contacts.
1902, Berlin, Germany — 1992, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Germany · United States
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Henry Kahane was a German-born American linguist and long-time professor at the University of Illinois, a leading scholar of Romance and Mediterranean languages and of the cultural contacts that shaped them. Forced to flee Nazi Germany as a Jew, he built, often with his wife Renée, a distinguished body of work on lexical and cultural exchange across the Mediterranean. His Jewish origin and emigration are documented parts of his biography.
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Linguist of Romance and Mediterranean languages and their cultural contacts.
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