It's finally here!!The long-awaited Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary is available for purchase from the League for Yiddish. We are certain that this will be your go-to Yiddish-language reference book for decades to come. Order it today and make a place for it on your bookshelves!Containing nearly 50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many parts of the world. The late Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties; this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage. The entries range literally from A (agriculture) to Z (zoology), with dozens more in between, include words and expressions used by professionals and tradesmen, in synagogues, in schools, on the street, in the military, at home and in intimate life - wherever Yiddish-speaking Jews lived and worked - as well as from Yiddish literature, newspapers and other sources of the written word. Included as well are thousands of entries reflecting contemporary topics, such as technology and computer science. The editors of the dictionary are: Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (Yiddish-language editor of Afn Shvel, Yiddish poet, and long-time colleague of Dr. Schaechter); Dr. Paul Glasser (former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research); and Dr. Chava Lapin (Yiddish professor, scholar and language expert)."A monumental achievement based on a life-time of labor by Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, the greatest Yiddish lexicographer in modern times, and edited by his closest students. This dictionary will be indispensible to those who study, speak and write Yiddish. Never again will mockers and scoffers be able to say 'there is no word for that in Yiddish'." -David E. Fishman, Professor of History, Jewish Theological Seminary of America Order your copy today! http://leagueforyiddish.org/verterbukh.html
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