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MAIN DICTIONARY (275 words)
JEWISH CULTURE DICTIONARY (40 words)
Copyright © Ester-Basya
Vaisman, 1996-2003
The 2003 edition of this dictionary is sponsored by a
generous grant from the Fishman Foundation for Yiddish
Culture and is supported by Yugntruf
Youth for Yiddish.
Special thanks to Mordkhe Schaechter
and Yitzkhok Niborski for helpful comments
on previous versions of the dictionary.
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