[12] To cite one example out of many: In the _Journal of American Folklore_, Vol. VII. pp. 72-74, there appeared a short appeal, by F. S. Krauss, to the folklorists of America, to collect whatsoever of Jewish lore may be found here ere the German Jews become entirely Americanized. It seems that Krauss had in mind the German language; but, for some reason, R. Andree, editor of the Globus, thought of Judeo-German, whereupon he made a violent attack upon it in an article, _Sprachwechsel der Juden in Nord-America_, in Vol. LXV. of his periodical, p. 363. Lenz, in his _Eindringlinge im Wörter-und Zitaten-schatz der deutschen Sprache_ (Münster, 1895, 8vo, 28 pp.), caps, however, the climax in his antipathy for the Jargon by making it the subject of antisemitic propaganda! [13] Even Frug, who is a master of the dialect, and who wields it with more vigor than the Russian language, thought it necessary to devote a whole series of poems to the reluctant defence of his vernacular, in _Lieder vun dem jüdischen Žargon_, in _Jüdisches Volksblatt_, Vol. VIII. (Beilage) pp. 881-896; also reprinted in his _Lieder un' Gedanken_. Cf. p. 108 of the present work. [14] Witness the frequent dogmatic statements and attacks on it by the historian Grätz. These finally brought forth a rejoinder by J. Dienesohn in the _Jüd. Volksblatt_, Vol. VIII. (Beilage), pp. 33-43, entitled _Professor Grätz un' der jüdischer Žargon, oder Wer mit wās darf sich schāmen?_ and this was followed by a similar article (_ibid._ pp. 65-68, 129-133) from the editor of the _Volksblatt_, in which Grätz's dogmatism is put in no enviable light. Even Steinschneider has no love for it; although he has written so much and so well on its literature, he knows nothing of its nineteenth-century development, and nearly all his quotations of Judeo-German words that in any way differ from the German form are preposterously wrong. Karpeles, writing the history of its literature, confessedly knows nothing of the language. M. Grünbaum, in his _Jüdisch-deutsche Chrestomathie_ and _Die Jüdisch-deutsche Litteratur_, displays an ignorance of the dialect which would put to shame a sophomoric newspaper reporter of a scientific lecture. What wonder, then, that D. Philipson, devoting a chapter to _The Ghetto in Literature_ (pp. 220-255 in _Old European Jewries_, Philadelphia, 1894), should not even suspect the existence of an extensive and highly interesting literature of the subject in the language of the Ghetto itself! Among the few memorable exceptions among German scholars are Güdemann and Strack, who approach Judeo-German in a fair and scholarly manner. See M. Güdemann, _Quellenschriften zur Geschichte des Unterrichts und der Erziehung bei den deutschen Juden_, etc., Berlin, 1891, pp. xxii, xxiii, and, by the same author, _Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der Juden in Frankreich und Deutschland_, Vol. I. note iii. pp. 273-287, and Vol. III. note vii.