Celebration of the New Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary
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Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Book Talk & Reception Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish This program will be held in Yiddish and English. Admission: Free |
Come celebrate the first English-Yiddish dictionary in nearly fifty years. Now you can say almost anything you want in Yiddish!
The Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary is published by Indiana University Press in conjunction with the League for Yiddish.
Program
Keynote Speaker: Sholem (Solon) Beinfeld, editor-in-chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2013)
Panel discussion: Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Paul Glasser, editors-in-chief and Chava Lapin, associate editor of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary; Leyzer Burko - moderator
Musical Program: Lorin Sklamberg, lead vocalist of The Klezmatics and YIVO Sound Archivist