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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
Moshe Menachem Mendel Spivak Meir Shapiro, initiator of Daf Yomi. The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was first proposed in a World Agudath Israel publication in December 1920 (Kislev 5681) Digleinu, the voice of Zeirei Agudath Israel, [9] by Rabbi Moshe Menachem Mendel Spivak, [10] [11] and was put ...
Menashe (Yiddish: מנשה) is a 2017 Yiddish-language American drama film directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017, where it was acquired by A24 for U.S. distribution. [2] The film was released in the United States on July 28, 2017.
Writing in vaybertaytsh from the first page of the Konstanzer Chumash, the first Yiddish translation of the Chumash (c. 1544). Unlike Yiddish block or square print (the script used in modern Hebrew, with the addition of special characters and diacritics), vaybertaytsh is a semi-cursive script, akin to the "Rashi" script.
Yiddish Traduire is a 2011 French independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurith Aviv . It was released on DVD by Éditions Montparnasse [ fr ] , as part of a boxset, also including Misafa Lesafa ( 2004 ) and Langue sacrée, langue parlée ( 2008 ).
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 ...