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New Yiddish Dictionary Explores Intracacies of Language

JL;DR SUMMARY The Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, edited by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner, is a groundbreaking addition to Yiddish-language education, offering a more inclusive lexical resource than previous dictionaries like Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LiteratureYiddishAmerican JudaismYiddish English DictionaryUriel WeinreichComprehensive DictionarySolon BeinfeldHarry BochnerJewish Language EducationLanguage Standardization

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Indiana, United States
"Indiana University Press, 744 pages, $45"
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Eitan Kensky is the preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University."
Israel
"The State of Israel was established in 1948, and American Jews relationship to Hebrew and Yiddish changed."

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