Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary: Revised and Expanded, Hardcover/Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

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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. About author(s): Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is Yiddish Language Editor for Afn shvel magazine and a published poet whose works include Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain . She worked with her father Mordkhe Schaechter on his numerous Yiddish publications, including collaborating with him in compiling this dictionary. Paul Glasser is former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has spent many years working with Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter as a student and colleague.

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Indiana University Press

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Carte straina/Philosophy & religion