Yiddish and Hebrew Dictionaries


  • Levita, Elijah. Shemot devarim : bi-leshon Ivri uvi-leshon Romiyi gam Ashkenazi ke-negdo, mesudarim ke-seder alfa beta / Isne : [s.n.], 1542. (Facsimile M.N. Rosenfeld, 1988)
  • Sefer mekor ha-safah : Dos iz der grund-fun di Shprakh ha-nikra lashon ha-Kodesh / Neuhof bey Warschau : Johann Anthon Kruger, 1793
  • Ben Zeev, Judah Leib. Otsar ha-shorashim : kolel shorshe ha-lashon ha-Ivrit ... ve-haatakatam...me-Ivrit le-Ashkenazit ume-Ashkenazit le-Ivrit / Vien : Gedrukt bay Anton Shmid, 1806
  • Buchner, Abraham. Otsar leshon ha-kodesh / Varsha : Avigdor b. Yoel, 1829
  • Siebenberger, Isaac. Sefer Otsar ha-shorashim ha-kelali kolel shorshe lashon Ivrit Aramit u-shaar lashon ha-nimtsaot be-sifre Tanakh (im Daniel ve-Ezra) uve-Shas Mishnah...me-Ivrit le-Ashkenazit ume-Ashkenazit le-Ivrit be-arbaah helekim / Varsha, 1846
  • Ben Zeev, Judah Leib. Otsar ha-schoroschim : hebraisch-deutsches-hebraisches worterbuch uber das Alte Testament / Wien : K. Knopflmacher & Sohne, 1862-1864 (4th ed.)
  • Feigensohn, Naphtali Shraga. Otsar shorshe leshon Rusya : Russisher vorter-bukh : dikduk sefat Rusya bi-leshon Ashkenaz / Vilna, 1874
  • Schulbaum, Moses. Allgemeines, vollstandiges neuhebraisch-deutsches Worterbuch : mit Inbegriff aller in den talmudischen Schriften und in der neuen Literatur uberhaupt vorkommenden Fremdworter / Wien : Michael Wolf, 1882
  • Hurwitz, David Halevi. Yudisher loshn-koydsher verter-bukh / Varsha : Shuldberg, 1893 (2nd ed. Odessa, 1899)
  • Gur, Yehuda. Milon shel kis : me-Ivrit le-Rusit ve-Ashkenazit veme-Rusit le-Ivrit ve-Ashkenazit / Varsha : Tushiya, [1900]
  • Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer. Milon Ivri meturgam ashkenazit ha-meduberet ben ha-Yehudim ve-Rusit / Vilna : Y. Reznikovski bi-Slonim, 1903
  • Golomb, Zvi Nisan. Milim bi-leshoni : Hebreish-Idishes verter-bukh fun Hebreishe verter / Vilna : A. Yavorkovski, 1910
  • Spivak, Charles D. Yiddish dictionary, containing all the Hebrew and Chaldaic elements of the Yiddish language, illustrated with proverbs and idiomatic expressions / [New York] : Jehvash, 1911
  • Bisko, Aaron Loeb. Milon male ve-shalem Zargoni-Ivri / London : Y. Naroditski, 1913
  • Bogoslavsky, Israel Jeremiah. Milon Idish-Ivri-Ivri-Idish / Tel Aviv : Mitspeh, 1926 (2nd ed. in 1931)
  • Pereferkovich, Nehemiah. Hebreyizmen in Idish : 4000 Hebreyishe verter un tsitatn / Rige : Globus, 1931 (2nd ed.)
  • Beresniak, Abraham Eliezer. Milon Idi-Ivri male / Paris : L. Berezniak, 1939
  • Yeverekhyahu, Israel Shalom. Milon Ivri Idish / Tel Aviv : M. Nyuman, 1940 (Reprinted: Yerushalayim : Yetsirah, 1992)
  • Lichter, Avrum. Moderner Yidish-Hebreish verterbukh / [New York] : Pardes Pub. Co., 1947
  • Benicchoki, M. Milon Ivri-Idi-Polani / [Tel Aviv]: Kuryer, 1950
  • Levin, Yaakov. Verterbikhl fun Hebreish-Yidishe verter : mit der rikhtiker oysshprakh un der geheriker derklerung fun yedn vort / Nyu York : Tsiko, 1958
  • Tsanin, Mordekhai. Milon Ivri-Yidi shalem / Tel Aviv : Letste nayes, 1960
  • Hochman, Ascher Zelik. Milon kis Ivri-Idish-Sefaradi. Tel Aviv : Niv, 1963 (2nd ed.)
  • Schechter-Haham, Mayer. Milon Ivri-Idish shalem u-mekif / Tel Aviv : Tsetsik, 1963
  • Jacobs, Sidney J. The Jewish word book / Middle Village, NY : J. David, 1982
  • Sivan, Reuven. Milon lamathil : Ivri - Idi, Tsarfati, Angli / Jerusalem : Solomon, 1962
  • Yeverekhyahu, Israel Shalom. Milon Ivri Idish / Yerushalayim : Yetsirah, 1992 (Reprint)
  • Guri, Yehuda. Kurtser Yidish-Hebreish-Rusisher verterbukh / Yerushalayim : Yosef Marton, 1992
  • Jacobson, Steven A. A guide to the more common Hebraic words in Yiddish / Fairbanks, Alaska : S.A. Jacobson, 1995

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