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  2. Yiddish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Weinreich, Uriel, Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, 1968, ISBN 0-8052-0575-6. Weinreich, Uriel, College Yiddish: an Introduction to the Yiddish language and to Jewish Life and Culture , 6th revised ed., YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-914512-26-9 .

  3. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  4. League for Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press/League for Yiddish, 2016; second revised and expanded edition, 2021). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] "The dictionary is the most comprehensive of its kind (English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English), and is co-edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Dr. Paul (Hershl) Glasser , a Yiddish linguist and ...

  5. Alexander Harkavy - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Harkavy (Yiddish: אַלכּסנדר האַרקאַווי, Russian: Александр Гаркави, Aleksandr Garkavi; May 5, 1863 at Novogrudok (Yiddish: נאַוואַרעדאָק), Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Navahrudak, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus) - 1939 in New York City) was a Russian-born American writer ...

  6. Elye Spivak - Wikipedia

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    While at the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture, Spivak put forward the idea of compiling a comprehensive Russian-Yiddish dictionary, a project which began in 1935. [10] Though completed in 1948, the dictionary's manuscript and other research materials were confiscated by the Soviet security organs upon the arrest of Spivak and its other ...

  7. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, Indiana University Press published the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, which was co-edited by Schaechter-Viswanath and Dr. Paul Glasser. [1] The dictionary, containing nearly 50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, was the first of its kind in over half a century, [ 2 ] and carried on the lexicographical work and legacy of her ...

  8. Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.

  9. Yiddish dialects - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Yiddish is split into Northern and Southern dialects. [7] Northern / Northeastern Yiddish (Litvish or "Lithuanian" Yiddish) was spoken in modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and portions of northeastern Poland, northern and eastern Ukraine, and western Russia. [7] Hiberno-Yiddish spoken by Jews in Ireland is based on this dialect. [8]

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