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Leyvik House, which is the headquarters of the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel, also has a large collection of Yiddish-English dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries with other languages and Yiddish, and trilingual and purely Yiddish dictionaries.

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One of the best currently available is the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul Glasser. Containing nearly 50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, it emphasizes Yiddish as a living language spoken worldwide. It is based on the work of the late Mordkhe Schaechter, who collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties, and this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage.

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GRAFFITI WITH inscriptions in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, created by visitors from Tel Aviv, Cleveland and Shavli, Lithuania. (credit: Courtesy Nahum Schnitzer)

The richness of dialect differences and historical developments are noted in entries ranging from “agriculture” to “zoology.” It includes words and expressions that can be found in classic and contemporary literature, newspapers, and other sources of the written word, as well as those that have long been used by professionals and tradesmen in synagogues, at home

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