Yiddish and English Dictionaries


  • Harkavy, Alexander. Hand verterbugh der englisher sprakhe (Harkavy's manual dictionary of the English language, giving the exact meaning of every word in Jewish, with the pronunciation of every word in Hebrew characters) / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1894
  • Harkavy, Alexander. Complete English-Jewish dictionary : with the pronunciation of every word in Hebrew characters / New York : J. Saphirstein, 1895 (2nd rev. and enl. ed.)
  • Harkavy, Alexander. A dictionary of the Yiddish language, with a treatise on Yiddish reading, orthography, and dialectal variations / New York: J. L. Werbelowsky, 1898 (2nd ed. in 1901)
  • Harkavy, Alexander. Harkavi's hand verterbukh der Englisher shprakhe / New York: Sapirshtayn un Rozenboym, 1899
  • Harkavy, Alexander. Harkavy's English-Jewish pocket dictionary, containing 25,000 words / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1900
  • Harkavy, Alexander. English-Yiddish dictionary, Yidish-English verterbukh / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1910
  • Spivak, C. D. Yiddish dictionary, containing all the Hebrew and Chaldaic elements of the Yiddish language, illustrated with proverbs and idiomatic expressions / New York: Verlag "Jehvash", 1911
  • Abelson, Paul. English-Yiddish encyclopedic dictionary : a complete lexicon and work of reference in all departments of knowledge / New York : The Jewish Press Publishing Co., 1915
  • Horowitz, Zina. Liliput dictionary, English-Yiddish / Bronx, N.Y. : Minkus Bros., 1920
  • Epstein, I. G. Milon 'ivri. angli-idish / Jerusalem, 1924
  • Harkavy, Alexander. Yidish-English-Hebreisher verterbukh / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1928 (2nd edition)
  • Harkavy, Alexander. English-Yiddish dictionary / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1953
  • Harkavy, Alexander. Yidish-English-Hebreisher verterbukh / New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1959 (4th edition)
  • Kogos, Fred. A dictionary of Yiddish slang & idioms / Secaucus, NJ : Citadel Press, 1967
  • Bergman, Aaron. Yidish-English, English Yidish verterbukh far shul un heym / New York: Kinderbukh, 1968
  • Weinreich, Uriel. Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English dictionary / New York : Shocken Books and Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1968
  • Sheheen, Dennis. A child's picture dictionary / New York : Adama Books, 1985
  • Galvin, Herman. The Yiddish dictionary sourcebook : a transliterated guide to the Yiddish language / Hoboken, N.J. : Ktav, 1986
  • Coldoff, Harry. A Yiddish dictionary in transliteration / Toronto : Proclaim, 1988
  • Schaechter, Mordkhe. English-Yiddish dictionary of academic terminology / New York : Yiddish Language Resource Center, The League for Yiddish, 1988
  • Harduf, David Mendel. English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English dictionary / Willowdale, Ontario : D. M. Harduf, 1993 (corrected edition)
  • Guri, I. Kurtser Yidish-Hebreyish-Englisher vertebukh = Milon Yidi-Ivri-Angli katsar / Yerushalayim : Hotsaat Y. Marton, 1994
  • Gross, David C. English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English dictionary, romanized. / New York : Hippocrene Books, 1995

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