Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070690383 ISBN 13: 9780070690387

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1968

Synopsis

Provides the advanced student of Yiddish with a reference to modern cultivated usage

About this title

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

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: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0070690383
• ISBN 13: 9780070690387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 800
• Editor: Weinreich Uriel