Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary - Softcover

Weinreich, Uriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914512501 ISBN 13: 9780914512509

Publisher: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 2012

Synopsis

The standard reference to contemporary Yiddish, the work of one of the great scholars of Yiddish language and culture.

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Review:

"A book that ought to be owned by anyone who reads Yiddish."
--Irving Howe

"By far the best dictionary of Yiddish, but even one of the most modern and scientific dictionaries in general."
--Roman Jakobson

"I hope that all lovers of Yiddish and all those interested in our language will appreciate what Weinreich has done for them with competence and love."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

A book that ought to be owned by anyone who reads Yiddish.
Irving Howe
By far the best dictionary of Yiddish, but even one of the most modern and scientific dictionaries in general.
Roman Jakobson
I hope that all lovers of Yiddish and all those interested in our language will appreciate what Weinreich has done for them with competence and love.
Isaac Bashevis Singer"

About the Author:

URIEL WEINREICH (1926 1967) was a professor of linguistics and Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University. His books include the classic textbook College Yiddish and Languages in Contact, renowned in the field of bilingual studies. An expert on the dialects of Yiddish, he was founder and director of the monumental Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry."

About this edition

• Publisher: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0914512501
• ISBN 13: 9780914512509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 856