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Harkavy, Alexander


Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary
A reprint of the 1928 expanded second edition. With a new introduction by Dovid Katz.
YIVO/Yale University Press, 2005

Available at:

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY  10011
917-606-8220

Herzog, Marvin


The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry
Vols. 1-3, Max Niemeyer Verlag/YIVO, 1995-2000

Purchase from Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, Germany

Also Available at:

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY  10011
917-606-8220

The Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x.285
800-922-2558

Mlotek, Chana (trans.)


Abraham Reisen - 11 poems
YIVO (2006)

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   15 West 16th Street
   New York, NY  10011
   917-606-8220

Schaechter, Mordkhe

 

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Plant Names in Yiddish: A Handbook of Botanical Terminology
YIVO, 2005

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   Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
   15 West 16th Street
   New York, NY  10011
   917-606-8220

 

Takones fun yidishn oysleyg (The Standardized Yiddish Orthography: Rules of Yiddish Spelling)
Sixth Edition, Language Resource Center of the League for Yiddish/YIVO, 2000

Available at:

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY  10011
917-606-8220

League for Yiddish
200 West 72nd Street, Suite 40
New York, NY
10023-2824
212-787-6675

The Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x.285
800-922-2558

Stutchkoff, Nahum


Der oytser fun der yidisher shprakh (Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language)
YIVO, 1950 (Reprint, 1991)

Available at:

The Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x.285
800-922-2558

Weinreich, Beatrice Silverman


Yiddish Folktales
Pantheon/YIVO, 1988

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   Also Available at:

   Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
   15 West 16th Street
   New York, NY  10011
   917-606-8220

Weinreich, Max


NEW! 
History of the Yiddish Language
2 volumes, English translation from Yiddish; Yale University Press/YIVO, 2008
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Weinreich, Uriel


College Yiddish
Fiftieth Anniversary edition, with new preface by Jeffrey Shandler, YIVO, 1999

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Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary
New York, YIVO, 1990

Both books  available at:

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller CJH Book Store
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY  10011
917-606-8220

The Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x.285
800-922-2558