Publisher: Schocken.
Date: 1987.
Pages: 851.
ISBN-10: 0805205756.
ISBN-13: 978 0805205756.
English/Yiddish.
Comprehensive and reliable , The Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary is the standard reference guide to contemporary Yiddish , an essential volume for the beginner and the expert alike . It has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness , its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions , and its presentations of Yiddish gramar and pronunciation . It is the work of one of the century's most admired scholars of Yiddish language and culture , and took twenty years to complete..