Dictionary of Words of Hebrew and Aramaic Origin in Yiddish

By Yitskhok Niborski with contributions from Simon Neuberg, Eliezer Niborski, and Natalia Krynicka
Bibliothèque Medem
Published in 2012

512 pages, 6 x 8.25 in
Paperback

The Dictionary of Words of Hebrew and Aramaic Origin in Yiddish contains around 9,000 entries, making it the largest work devoted to words of this type. It crowns the work, undertaken in 1998, of a team of lexicographers under the direction of Yitskhok Niborski. The Hebrew and Aramaic component of Yiddish vocabulary, through the particular writing and phonetics of its words as much as through the specific cultural contents from which it is inseparable, constitutes a separate chapter in the learning of the language and can constitute a pitfall. This dictionary, very popular among students and readers all over the world, provides not only the explanation in current Yiddish of all these words and expressions, but also their phonetic representation as well as very complete information on their origin and their use in folklore and in literature.

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