The principal purpose of the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary is to furnish the advanced student of Yiddish with access to the language of modern cultivated usage. It is designed for persons who have a firm grounding in English and at least a rudimentary command of Yiddish and are eager to broaden their mastery of Yiddish vocabulary and phraseology. This standard reference guide, contains more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus a grammar guide, a pronunciatioon key and instructions for usage.
