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[Indiana University Press] ✓ Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary 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 places around the world. The late Mordkhe Schaechter collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties and this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage. The richness of dialect differences and historical developments are noted in entries ranging from "agriculture" to "zo
| Title | : | Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253022827 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 856 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
Mordkhe Schaechter the 800-page dictionary is becoming the go-to book for anyone looking for a response to this question: How do you say it in Yiddish?" Forward"This dictionary, twice as large as the best Yiddish dictionary we currently have in English, represents a major milestone in the history of Yiddish lexicography--the culmination of Mordkhe Schaechter's lifetime devotion to collecting and coining Yiddish words." Leyzer Burko, Forward""A monumental achievement based on a life-time of labor by Dr. How do we say speakerphone in Yiddish? Panic attack? In the buff?Thankfully, the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary is now helping to fill the gaps. Mordkhe Schaechter, the greatest Yiddish lexicographer inmodern times, and edited by his closest students. Fishman, Professor of History
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. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is Yiddish language editor for Afn shvel magazine and a published poet whose works include Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain. He spent many years working w
Brooklynski said Buy this book.. Excellent work. The one criticism I have is that for philosophical, political, historical and I suppose philological reasons, Dr.Schaechter (of blessed memory) was very against incorporating modern German words into the Yiddish language. Consequently, some of the Yiddish words of German origin that are used day in and day out by Yiddish-speaking people do not appear in the dictionary. This is a minor flaw, however, since there are plenty of other words to choose from. Another criticism I would render is that neologisms are not marked as such. Whatever flaws it has, if you are se. "Yiddish scholar/lovers: this book is a must-have!" according to Tree. After promising myself no more dictionaries, I could not resist this one and am glad I did not. Mordkhe Schaecter was my much beloved teacher, and I believe Gitl Schaecter Visvanath did a beautiful job with it. (Certainly, I remember Dr. Schaecter's dislike (disdain?) for daytshmerisms.)Although I have not owned this dictionary very long, I have used it often and look forward to using it more.. "Not good." according to Amazon Customer. The choice of entries is simply baffling. For instance, there are separate entries for "nuclear material", "nuclear arms", "nuclear bomb", "nuclear energy", and on and on. These translations can be figured out directly from those of "nuclear" and "material", etc. There is an entry for "high-school student", but not for "high-school teacher", there is "home insurance", but not "car insurance" (there is "car accident" though.) There is "stewed apples" and "stewed tomatoes", but not, say, "stewed berries" or "stewed cabbage". Not good.About the reseller: BEWARE nowhere do they say
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 places around the world. The late Mordkhe Schaechter collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties and this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage. The richness of dialect differences and historical developments are noted in entries ranging from "agriculture" to "zoology" and include words and expressions that can be found in classic and contemporary literature, newspapers, and other sources of the written word and have long been used by professionals and tradesmen, in synagogues, at home, in intimate life, and wherever Yiddish-speaking Jews have lived and worked.
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