Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary
Subtitle: Revised and Expanded
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng; yid
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780253058843
Description: "This second edition of the award-winning Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary offers even more entries for anyone working with Yiddish on a personal or professional level. Based on the work of the late Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, a noted linguist and Executive Director of the League for Yiddish, the dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world. Featuring 85,000 entries, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with approximately 1000 new words and phrases and is sure to become a critical resource for Yiddish scholars and speakers for years to come."--Publisher's description.