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Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary - 2nd Edition by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath & Paul Glasser (Hardcover)

Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary - 2nd Edition by  Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath & Paul Glasser (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>-Revised and expanded 2nd Ed of the award-winning, <i>Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary</i>.</p><p>-Includes more than 85,000 words, and approximately 1000 new terms.</p><p>First edition sold over 3500 copies.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This second edition of the award-winning <i>Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary </i>offers<i> </i>even more entries for anyone working with Yiddish on a personal or professional level.</p><p>Based on the work of the late Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, a noted linguist and Executive Director of the League for Yiddish, the dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world.</p><p>Featuring 85,000 entries, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with approximately 1000 new words and phrases and is sure to become a critical resource for Yiddish scholars and speakers for years to come.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is Yiddish Language Editor for <i>Afn shvel </i>magazine and a published poet whose works include <i>Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain</i>. She worked with her father Mordkhe Schaechter on his numerous Yiddish publications, including collaborating with him in compiling this dictionary.</p><p>Paul Glasser is former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has spent many years working with Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter as a student and colleague.</p></p>

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