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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).
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 ...
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There he specialized in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology [6] and was named the Atran Professor of Yiddish. [7] In 1959, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. [8] He advocated the increased acceptance of semantics and compiled the iconic Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published shortly after ...
Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך [2] Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics [3] and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish ...
(1896), in which he shows that Yiddish has the essential elements and forms of a living language; "Don Kichot", a Judæo-German translation (1897–98); Yiddish-English (6th edition), English-Yiddish (11th edition) Dictionary (1910); The Holy Scriptures (1916) reprinted 1936 & 1951; Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary (4th ed 1928) republished 1968.
It follows the pronunciation of "Standard Yiddish" (or "YIVO Yiddish"), as described in such works as Uriel Weinreich's College Yiddish and Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
In 1964 he founded Yugntruf – Youth for Yiddish together with several of his students, and he served as its official advisor until 1974. Following his death, his daughter Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and former student and colleague Paul Glasser published the Comprehensive English Yiddish Dictionary based on his lexical research. [4]