Modern Yiddish-English, English-Yiddish Dictionary Published After 20-Year Research "The Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-E n g 1 i s h Dictionary," a joint publishing venture of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and McGraw-Hill Book Company, was published this week after nearly 20 years of preparation. It is the first Yiddish-English dictionary in 40 years and the first completely new English-Yiddish dictionary in 75 years, according to the YIVO Institute, and the publishers be- lieve it is an achievement of spe- cial cultural and linguistic signifi- cance. The YIVO dictionary reflects the growth and development of the language giving many hundreds of new Yiddish words, phrases, and idioms, .as well as precise equival- ents of hundreds of contemporary English terms. It presents the liv- ing language as it is employed now by cultivated speakers, emphasiz- ing current shades of meaning and up-to-date usages. It embraces both colloquial and literary forms pro- viding access to current idiomatic speech and the language of litera- The dictionary is not intended for The Dictionary is not intended for the immigrant, but for the English- speaking reader who wishes to in crease his mastery of Yiddish as a second language. Dr. Uriel Weinreich, late Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Colum- bia University, spent nearly 20 years preparing the "Modern Eng- lish-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dic- tionary." Founder and first direc- tor of Columbia University's Lan- guage and Culture Atlas of Ash- kenazic Jewry he was able to gather from this rich source num- erous items in addition to those gleaned from literature and from living speech. A well-known lin- guist, Dr. Weinreich was the au- thor of "College Yiddish," a pop- ular textbook about to appear in its fifth revised edition, editor of "The Field of Yiddish," and a fre- quent contributor to scholarly jour- nals in his field. 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