The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook: A Transliterated Guide to the Yiddish Language

Containing over 8,500 Yiddish words and phrases in transliteration, The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook is the handiest guide available for those who wish to learn colloquial Yiddish. It features a comprehensive Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish dictionary which pays special attention to those words most useful for everyday conversation. Every word is given in both its standard Yiddish form and in English transliteration. The Introduction provides a brief history of the Yiddish language and of Yiddish culture in the United States in the last century, a guide to Yiddish pronunciation and grammar, and a series of topically arranged appendices containing Yiddish proverbs and popular expressions.Stan Tamarkin is the author of 'The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook: A Transliterated Guide to the Yiddish Language' with ISBN 9780870687150 and ISBN 0870687158.