Register Log In Wordsmith Talk Forums General Topics Q&A about words Yiddish Search Advanced Forum Search Forums Calendar Active Threads

Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Yiddish #175367 03/31/2008 1:18 PM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 6 andy j stranger andy j stranger Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Do you recommend any dictionaries/books for someone who knows very little Yiddish but would love to learn more? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish andy j #175369 03/31/2008 1:39 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Yes. Some books. Max Weinreich. Modern English-Yiddish / Yiddish-English Dictionary. Alexander Harkavy. Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary: A Reprint of the 1928 Expanded Second Edition. Uriel Weinreich. College Yiddish. Leo Rosten. The Joys of Yiddish. —. The New Joys of Yiddish. Michael Wex. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods. Dr. Seuss and Sholem Berger. Di Kats Der Payats / The Cat In The Hat. Some online resources: The Mendele List: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/ der bay: http://www.derbay.org/ YIVO: http://www.yivo.org/ —. http://www.yivo.org/yiddish/yiddish.htm The Nation Yiddish Book Center: http://www.bikher.org/ The Yiddish Radio Project: http://www.yiddishradioproject.org/ dos yidishe kol / Yiddish Voice: http://www.yiddishvoice.com/ der forvarts: http://yiddish.forward.com/oldarchive/radio/index.html der yugntruf: http://www.yugntruf.org/ (seems to be undergoing reconstruction at the moment) That should get you started. Plenty of linkage available at most of these sites. Yiddish is alive and well on the Web. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish zmjezhd #175371 03/31/2008 2:05 PM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 6 andy j stranger andy j stranger Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 6 THank you! I am happy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

Default Style BlackNTan Drab eBay GooG v2 infopop new dark new light original dark original stock rounded corners Slate snow sunny dropshadow theblues Touch Of Grey UBB.threads UBB.threads - Dark UBB.threads - Light UBBCentral UBBCentral - Crimson UBBCentral - Lime UBBCentral - Marshmallow UBBCentral - Mocha UBBCentral - Zen UBBT77 UBBT77 - Dark ubbthreads ubbthreads-dark Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith Talk