About Eleazar Birnbaum Eleazar Birnbaum is a professor emeritus in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Books by Eleazar Birnbaum Yiddish A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition by (author) S.A. Birnbaum introduction by Eleazar Birnbaum, David Birnbaum, Kalman Weiser & Jean Baumgarten Books on Asia from the Near East to the Far East by (author) Eleazar Birnbaum