Modern English Yiddish Yiddish English Dictionary - Hardcover

Weinreich, Uriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0914512455 ISBN 13: 9780914512455

Publisher: Yivo Inst for Jewish Research, 1990

Synopsis

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

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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 Inst for Jewish Research
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0914512455
• ISBN 13: 9780914512455
• Binding: Hardcover