Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary

Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms. The user-friendly entries include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the highly acclaimed Dictionnaire Yiddish-Fran-s by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Biblioth-e Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user''s guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish.