Does this dictionary include words from the "living" Yiddish used in several "ultra-Orthodox" communities (largely in Brooklyn, the Hudson River Valley and in Israel)? In these places where there are still plenty of children who speak Yiddish as a first language, new vocabulary is most likely to be introduced, and in all fairness most resources for Yiddish language reflect an increasing extinct secularized version of the language that died out in the middle of the 20th century. --Aaron
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Sukenic, Harvey wrote: > I'm posting this for a friend: > > > > Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner, > Editors-in-Chief. Indiana University Press, cloth 978-0-253-00983-8 $45.00 > ebook 978-0-253-00988-3 $38.99 > > > > Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, > Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in > the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and > coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms. The user-friendly entries > include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial > and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of > Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as > Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the highly acclaimed > Dictionnaire Yiddish- Fran?ais by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, > published by the Biblioth?que Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an > extensive user's guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for > students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish. > > > > Solon Beinfeld taught modern European and modern Jewish history at Washington > University in St. Louis and has translated extensively from Yiddish, most > recently The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman. > > > > Harry Bochner, a linguist and Yiddishist, is author of Simplicity in > Generative Morphology. > > > > To order go to the website -- www.iupress.indiana.edu -- or phone > 1-800-842-6796. > > > > Here is a link to the online website: http://verterbukh.org/project.html > > > > If you have specific questions, contact Harry Bochner at > hboch...@post.harvard.edu . > > > > > > Harvey Sukenic > > Hebrew College Library > > hsuke...@hebrewcollege.edu > > Aaron Wolfe Kuperman Library of Congress, ABA USPL, Law Cataloging Section This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress.
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