Flip through the Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary, published by Uriel Weinreich in 1968, and you’ll notice it’s missing plenty of now-ubiquitous ...

The binding of my copy of Uriel Weinreich’s “Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary” broke sometime between my third and fourth semesters studying the language. The beginning Yiddish ...

Kinderbuch Publications has announced the publication of a “Student’s Dictionary, English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English,” a book geared especially for young people. Each part contains approximately 10,000 ...

The last time an English-Yiddish dictionary was published was in 1968. The “Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary” by the late Yiddish linguist Uriel ...

As one might surmise from its title, “Schmegoogle” is not a serious book. Subtitled “Yiddish Words for Modern Times,” it’s a pun-filled compendium that amusingly mashes up modern English with words ...

It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has, for the most part, ...

Such terms are not found in most Yiddish dictionaries that you would find on library bookshelves. But when Yiddish scholar and poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath set out to publish the first ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

New York Jewish Week — In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond ...

"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language. (New York Jewish Week) — In ...