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There are over 100 Yiddish dictionaries in the YIVO Library. The following list of available dictionaries is sorted alphabetically according to type of dictionary (see last column of table) and date of publication.

Subject headings include:
Academic Terminology
Etymological
Foreign Words in Yiddish
Humorous
Industrial and Commercial Terms
Medical Terminology
Political Terms
Proverbs
Scientific Terms
Technological Terms
Thesaurus
Words of Hebrew and Aramaic Origin

Languages
Multiple Languages
Belorussian
Dutch
Encyclopedia
English
French
German
Hebrew
Hebrew/Aramaic
Japanese
Lithuanian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian

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Call # Author Title Place of Publication Year of Publication Number of Pages Type

PJ 5118 S3

Schaechter, M.

English-Yiddish dictionary of academic terminology

New York

1988

112, xvi p.

ACADEMIC TERMINOLOGY

PJ 5117 A5

 

Yidish-Vaysrusisher tashn-verterbukh

Minsk

1932

281, 21 p.

BELORUSSIAN
Yiddish-Belorussian

1/69315

Beem, H.

Jiddische spreekwoorden

Holland

1970

294 p.

DUTCH

/15883

Zeitlin, Hillel

Ersht Yudish entsiklopedish verterbukh

Warsaw

1917

11, 140 p.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

PJ 5117 H57

Horowitz, Zina

Liliput Dictionary: English-Yiddish

Leipzig

 

621 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 H5 1891

Harkavy, Alexander

Complete English-Jewish dictionary

New York

1891

vii, 752 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 H5 1898

Harkavy, Alexander

Yidish-Englishes verterbukh

New York

1898

351 p.

ENGLISH
Yiddish-English

PJ 5117 H5 1900

Harkavy, Alexander

Yidish-English tashen-verterbukh

New York

1900

xv,(1),351, (1) pp.

ENGLISH

Yiddish-English
(pocket size)

PJ 5117 H5 1903

Harkavy, Alexander

Falshtendiges English-Yudishes verterbukh

New York

1903

vii, 759 p.

ENGLISH

English-Yiddish

PJ 5117 H5 1910

Harkavy, Alexander

Falshtendiges English-Yudishes verterbukhá

New York

1910

vii, 759 p.

ENGLISH
English-Yiddish

PJ 5117 H5 1928

Harkavy, Alexander

English-Yidisher verterbukh

New York

1928

1, vii, 759, v.

ENGLISH

YIVO PJ 5118 Y5

 

The vocabulary for the beginner class of the Yiddish school in America

New York

1944

78 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5118 J2

 

The Joseph Jacobs Handbook of Familiar Jewish words and expressions

New York

1956

34 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5118 K48 1967

Kogos, Fred

A dictionary of Yiddish Slang and Idioms

New York

1967

167 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 B4

Bergman, Aaron

Student's dictionary, English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English

New York

1968

141, 131 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 W4

Weinreich, Uriel

Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

New York

1968

xliii, 789,[1], 16 p.

ENGLISH

/72351

Kogos, Fred

1001 Yiddish proverbs

New York

1970

158 p.

ENGLISH
Proverbs

/78360

Markowitz, Endel

Encyclopedia Yiddishanica

 

1979

443 leaves

ENGLISH
English-Yiddish (transliterated)

PJ 5117 R65

Posembaum, S.

A Yiddish Word Book for English-speaking People

New York

1978

180 p.

ENGLISH

 

/77762

Postman, Frederica

The Yiddish alphabet book

Palo Alto, CA [?]

1979

[50] p.

ENGLISH

PJ 4833 J25 1982

Jacobs, Sidney J.

The Jewish Word Book

New York

1982

x, 356 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 H3

Harduf, D. M.

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

Willowdale, Canada

1985

241, 118 p.

ENGLISH

/80526

Sheheen, Dennis

A child's picture dictionary: English-Yiddish

New York

1985

[43] p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 G2

Galvin, H. Tamarkin, S.

The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook

Hoboken

1986

317 p.

ENGLISH
Yiddish-English, English-Yiddish (transliterated)

PJ 5117 C6

Coldoff, Harry

A Yiddish Dictionary in transliteration

Toronto

1988

211 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 H31

Harduf, D. M.

Transliterated English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

Willowdale, Canada

1991, 1989

471, 185 p.; v 1-2

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 G68 1992

Gross, David

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

New York

1992

117 p.

ENGLISH

PJ 5117 A19

Abelson, Paul

English-Yiddish encyclopedic dictionary

New York

1915

18, 1748, 6 pp.

ETYMOLOGICAL

PJ 5117 G7

 

Groyser verterbukh fun der Yidisher shprakh

New York

1961

4 v.

ETYMOLOGICAL

PJ 5118 K16

Kantorovitsh, P.

Fremd-verter-bukh

Warsaw

 

326, 138 columns

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

/82611

Trubnik, Y.

Fremd verter-bukh

Zhitomir

1887

88 p.

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

14/5800

Pinski A. N.

Zshargonishes fremd verterbukh

Vilna

1907

 

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH
Also, words of Hebrew origin

PJ 5118 K3

Karliner, B.

Fremd-verterbukh

Warsaw

1911, 1926?

550 columns

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

PJ 5118 R5 1914

Rozenshteyn, A. B.

Fremd-verter-bukh

Warsaw

1914

496 p.

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

PJ 5118 R5 1919

Rozenshteyn, A. B.

Fremd-verter-bukh

Warsaw

1919

514 p.

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

PJ 5118 K16 1923

Kantorovitsh, P.

Fremd-verter-bukh

Warsaw

1923

326, 60 columns

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

PJ 5118 P5 1923

Pinski, a.

Slovar Yidisher fremd-verter-bukh

Vilna

1923

1036 columns

FOREIGN WORDS IN YIDDISH

PJ 5117 G8 1982

Gris, Noah.

Verterbukh Yidish-Frantseyzish.

Paris

1982

vii-xxiv, 371, [7-16].

FRENCH
Yiddish-French

PJ 5117 K4 1989

Kerner, Sh. ; Vaysbrat, B.

Verterbukh frantseyzish-Yidish

Paris

1989

527 p.

FRENCH
French-Yiddish

/17369

Nascher, Ed.

Das buch Judischen Jargons

Vienna

 

164 p.

GERMAN

/55375

Gallenberg, J.

Judischteutsches Worterbuchlein

Halle

1736

190 p.

GERMAN

PJ 5118 B5

Bischoff, Erich

Judisch-deutscher und deutsch-judischer dolmetscher

Leipzig

1916

viii, 108 p.

GERMAN
Yiddish-German

/24302

Shults, K.

Daytsh-Yudish verterbukh

Warsaw

1916

508 p.

GERMAN
German-Yiddish

PJ 5117 S8

Strack, Hermann

Judisches worterbuch

Leipzig

1916

xv, [1], 204 p.

GERMAN

/69124

Wolf, Siegmund

Worterbuch des Rotwelschen

Mannheim

1956

430 p.

GERMAN

PJ 5118 W4

Weinberg, Werner

Die Reste des Judischdeutschen

Stuttgart

1969

116 p.

GERMAN
Yiddish-German

PJ 5117 L7

Lotzsch, Ronald

Juddisches Worterbuch

Leipzig

1990

204 p.

GERMAN

PJ 5117 W59

Wolf, Siegmund

Jiddisches Worterbukh

Hamburg

1991

203 p.

GERMAN

PJ 5118 I8

 

Milon shmoshi katsar (?)

Israel

 

63 p.

HEBREW

/47214

Ben Zeev, Judah Leib

Otsar ha-shorashim

Vienna

1816

3 v.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish, Yiddish-Hebrew

PJ 5117 M7

Mohr, Abraham Menahem Mendel

Verterbukh har Tsien

Lemberg (Lwow)

1889

180, 30, 38 p.

HEBREW

PJ 5117 G8

Goor, Y.

Milon (shel) kis Ivri-Idi

Tel Aviv

1906, 1913, 1930, 1945, 1948

174 p.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 G6

Golomb, Tzvi Nisn

Milon beloshoni: Hebreish-idishes verterbukh fun hebreishe verter, oysdrike un Toyreh-verter

Vilna

1910

400, 47

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 B5

Bisco, Aaron Loeb

Milon male ùve-shalem Zargoni-Ivri

London

1913

255 p.

HEBREW
Yiddish-Hebrew

PJ 5117 G65

Gordon, Aryeh Grunom

Orah mishor

Warsaw

1914

197 p.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 Y43

Yeverekhyahu, Israel Shalom

Milon Ivri-Idish

Jerusalem

1927, 1933

222 p.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 Y43

Yeverekhyahu, Israel Shalom

Milon Idish-Ivri

Jerusalem

1927, 1935, 1948

262 p.

HEBREW
Yiddish-Hebrew

PJ 5117 B38

Avak

Milon Idi-Ivri male

Paris

1939

2 v.

HEBREW
Yiddish-Hebrew

PJ 5117 L5

Lichter, Abraham

Milon hadash Idi-Ivri

New York

1947

315 p.

HEBREW
Yiddish-Hebrew

/66255

Alpert, M.

Hebreish-Yidish verterbikhl

Buenos Aires

1950

22 p.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

63-A-229 (micr)

Hokhman, O.

Milon kis, Ivri-Idish-Sfaradi

Buenos Aires

1954

326 p.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 T7

Tsanin, M.

Fuler Hebreish-Yidisher verterbukh

Tel Aviv

1960

2 v.

HEBREW
Hebrew-Yiddish

/75887

Bar-El, J.

Milon Yidish Ivrit

Ramat Gan

1976

93 p.

HEBREW
Yiddish-Hebrew

YIVO PJ 5118 N6

Noble, Shlomo

Humesh-Taytsh.

New York

1943

7 p.l., 13-87, [1] p.

HEBREW/ARAMAIC

11/70215

Steinberg, I.

Psukim un taytshn

Tel Aviv

1969

303 p.

HEBREW/ARAMAIC

PJ 5118 K5

Kuk, M.

Humoristisher verter bukh

Philadelphia

1955

47 p.

HUMOROUS

11/69666

Davis, Ida

Fun with Yiddish

Duluth

1967

74 p.

HUMOROUS

PJ 5118 R6

Rosten, Leo

The joys of Yiddish

New York

1968

xxix, 533 p.

HUMOROUS

/79248

Hoffman, Paul

Dictionary shmictionary! A Yiddish and Yinglish dictionary

New York

1983

189 p.

HUMOROUS

PJ 5118 K6

Krimberg, M.

Virtshafts-Leksikon, hantbukh far virtshaft un handl

Berlin

1933

17-334 col.-diagr.

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL TERMS

/93926

Kazuo Ueda

Idissugo kiso (Yiddish-Japanese Dictionary)

Tokyo

1989

xiii, 142 p.

JAPANESE
Yiddish-Japanese

PJ 5117 D6

Dobusis, St.

Litvish-Yidisher verternik

Kaunas

1923

243 p.

LITHUANIAN
Lithuanian-Yiddish

PJ 5118 S31

Schaechter, M.

Pregnancy, Childbirth and early Childhood

New York

1991

xli, 155 p.

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

PJ 5117 B29

Benicchoki, M.

Slownik Hebrajsko-Zydowski-Polski

Poland

 

960 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Hebrew-Yiddish-Polish

PJ 5117 B2

Bank, Y.

Rash milon

Zhitomir

1872

 

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Hebrew-Yiddish-German

PJ 5117 W6 (14/26898)

Volfson, M.

Polnish-Russish-Yudisher varter-bukh

Warsaw

1906

252 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Polish-Russian-Yiddish

PJ 5117 B27

Ben-Iakov

Russish-Hebreyish-zshargon varterbukh

Vilna

1908

1020 colums

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Russian-Hebrew-Yiddish

PJ 5117 H5 1925

Harkavy, Alexander

Yiddish-English-Hebrew dictionary

New York

1925

vi, 530, vii p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Yiddish-English-Hebrew

PJ 5117 E7

Ardeli, M. Pines, Dan

Milon-kis 6000 milim be-hamesh safot [Ivrit-Yidish-Anglit-Hungarit-Tsarfatit

Tel Aviv

1954

342 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Hebrew-English-Yiddish-Hungarian-French

PJ 5117 B7

 

Britannica world language dictionary

Chicago

1958

v. 2

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

PJ 5117 B45

Bergman, Peter M.

The concise dictionary of twenty-six languages in simultaneous translations

New York

1968

406 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

PJ 5118 F55

Fisher-Shusterovits', Sarah.

Milon shimushi la-ganenet :Ivrit-Yidish-Sefaradit

Buenos Aires

1969

136 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Hebrew-Yiddish-French

PJ 5117 M5

 

Milon Rav-Lashonei

Tel Aviv

1972

386 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

PJ 5117 G87 1992

Guri, I.

Kurtser Yidish-Hebreyish-Rusisher verterbukh

Jerusalem

1992

8, 141, ix p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Yiddish-Hebrew-Russian

PJ 5117 G81 1994

Guri, I.

Kurtser Yidish-Hebreish-Englisher verterbukh

Jerusalem

1994

142 p.

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Yiddish-Hebrew-English

PJ 5117 M3

Mark, Aron

Fulshtendik Poylish-Yidish verterbukh

Warsaw

 

1908 columns

POLISH
Polish-Yiddish

/82534

Krakovski, Y.

Poylish-Yudish verterbukh

Warsaw

191-192-

872 columns

POLISH
Polish-Yiddish

11/20927

Kon, P.

Dos ershte Poylish-Yidishe verterbukh

Vilna

1926

 

POLISH
Polish-Yiddish

PJ 5118 P65

 

Politishes verter-bukh

St. Petersburg

1907

96 p.

POLITICAL TERMS

/80954; micr# 77-Y-1104

Slutski, D.

Leksikon fun politishe un fremd-verter

Kiev

1929

1005 p.

POLITICAL TERMS

PJ 5118 M17

Mab, A.

Politish-ekonomish verterbukh

Warsaw

1929

334 p.

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC TERMS

/83814

Parsky, Paula F.

Yidishe verter un shprikhverter

Amherst

1987

40 p.

PROVERBS
Words and sayings

/5792

Lifshits, Y.

Rusish-Yudisher verterbukh

Kiev

1880

 

RUSSIAN
Russian-Yiddish

PJ 5117 D7 1886

Dreyzin, I.

Russish-Yudishes verter bukh

Warsaw

1886

832 p.

RUSSIAN
Russian-Yiddish

PJ 5117 D7 1894

Dreyzin, I.

Russish-Yudishes verter bukh

Warsaw

1894

832 p.

RUSSIAN
Russian-Yiddish

PJ 5117 R6

Rokhkind, S. ; Shkliar, G.

Yidish-Rusisher verterbukh

Minsk

1940

519, [1] p.

RUSSIAN
Yiddish-Russian

PJ 5117 F3

Falkovich, E.

Rusish-Yidish verterbikhl far der onfangshul

Moscow

1941

175 p.

RUSSIAN
Russian-Yiddish

PJ 5117 R87

Shapiro, M. A.

Rusish-Yidish verterbukh

Moscow

1989

719 p.

RUSSIAN
Russian-Yiddish

7611 (Vilna)

Klivner, B.

Nay groys-visnshaftlekh fremd-verter-bukh

Warsaw

1930

check

SCIENTIFIC TERMS

PJ 5117 L4

Lerman, J. ; Niborski, Y.

Yidish-Shpanish verterbukh

Buenos Aires

1979

344 p.

SPANISH
Yiddish-Spanish

PJ 5117 K6

Konstantinovsky, M.

Diccionario Castellano-Idish

Buenos Aires

1986

v.1-3

SPANISH

PJ 5118 F5

Finkel, KH.

Yidisher tekhnisher verterbukh

Kharkov

1923

75 p.

TECHNOLOGICAL TERMS

PJ 5117 S83

Stuchkov, N.

Oytser fun der Yidisher shprakh

New York

1950

933 p.

THESAURUS

PJ 5117 T6

Tortshinski, Y.

Kurtser Yidish-Ukrainisher verterbukh

Kiev

1996

206 p.

UKRAINIAN
Yiddish-Ukrainian

PJ 5117 H6

Hurwitz, David Halevi

Sefer ha-Milim ...Yudisher loshn-koydesher verter-bukh

Warsaw; Odessa

1893, 1903

112 p. ; 111 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5117 S7

Spivak, Charles David

Idish verterbukh

New York

1911

3 p.l., v-xxxi p., 340 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5118 S6

Soyfer, Sh. A.

Verter-bukh fun ale hebreishe un arameish-sirishe verter

Chernovtsy

1920

118 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW AND ARAMAIC ORIGIN

PJ 5118 P4

Pereferkovich, N.

Hebraizmen in Idish

Riga

1931

300 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5118 S84

Steinberg, I.

Hebraizmen in der Yidisher shprakh

Wroclaw

1948

334 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5118 Y3

 

Oytser fun hebraizmen

Rio de Janeiro

1954

v.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5118 K7

Krupin, N.

Hantbukh fun hebraizmen in der Yidisher shprakh

Buenos Aires

1957

252 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5118 L4

Levin, Jacob Leon

Verterbikhl fun Hebreish-Yidishe verter mit der rikhtiker oysshprakhá

New York

1958

102 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5117 Y8

Younin, Wolf

Kurtser verterbukh

New York

1978

193 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

PJ 5117 N5

Niborski, Y.

Verterbukh fun loshn-koydesh-shtamike verter in Yidish

Paris

1997, 1999

306 p. ; 310 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

 

Volf, M.

Hebreishe un Arameishe verter in der Yidisher shprakh

Portland

1999

112 p.

WORDS OF HEBREW ORIGIN

CAPTION FOR IMAGE AT TOP OF PAGE:
Illustration from English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, by Paul Abelson (New York, 1915).
(YIVO Library)