Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner Yiddish Learning not quite the Jews you'd

not quite the Jews you'd expect

Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania

having encroached upon or completely overtaken them

the exiled king of Outer Canthus

Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase “never better

Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner Yiddish Learning not quite the Jews you'dIncluding over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms. The user friendly entries include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of Yiddish,