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Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner Yiddish Learning Animating their fictions were aIncluding 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,