Languages and Linguistics

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HEBREW

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YIDDISH

Yiddish Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Lexicons

• Duden Jiddisches Wörterbuch. Mannheim; Leipzig; Vienna; Zurich: Dudenverlag, 1992.
  Call Number:437.947L919j1992 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Lib.)

  This slender volume serves as a quick reference source for those wanting German equivalents to Yiddish words. Additional information contained at the start and end of the book discuss the history of Yiddish from medieval German, grammar of the Yiddish language and a Hebrew alphabet.




• Harkavy, Alexander. Yiddish-English Dictionary. New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1898.
  Call Number: 437.947h225H (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Lib.)




• Hilgert Wilfried with Illustrations by Ehrhard Hütz. Mores, Zores un Mashores: Jiddish -Hebräisch in unsere Mundart. Bingen: Hilgert Verlag, 1997.
  Call Number: 432.4391H549m1994 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Lib.)




• Stutchkoff, Nahum. Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1991.
  Call Number: 492.44 St90 1991 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Lib.)

  Hilgert attempts in this delightfully illustrated small dictionary to show the influence of Yiddish and Hebrew on Hessian German (from the area of Frankfurt). Each Hessian word receives a modern German equivalent as well as a Yiddish and Hebrew one. The book is organized thematically.

NON-HEBREW AND NON-YIDDISH

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