
Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
Edited by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner Indiana University PressPublished in 2013 744 pages, 7 x 10 inHardcover Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of Yiddish linguists including editors Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner and associate editors Barry Goldstein and Yankl Salant, 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-Français by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Bibliothèque Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an in