Yitskhok Niborski: Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais

If you can at all make use of a French-Yiddish/Yiddish-French dictionary, Yitskhok Niborski's recently published Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais comes highly recommended.

London Yiddish scholar Hugh Denman, writing for Mendele and UYIP (mailing lists), says it is now "undoubtedly the finest single-volume Yiddish dictionary in existence". Denman says further:

As I wrote to a friend recently, "Niborski and his co-author Bernard Vaisbrot (with the assistance of Simon Neuberg) have done exactly what many of us have been advocating for years. They have created a dictionary which combines the philological virtues of Weinreich with the breadth of vocabulary of Harkavy, Niborski's own dictionary of Hebraisms, Stutshkov's Oytser and material from the Groyser verterbukh."

-- Hugh Denman
Honorary Research Fellow
(formerly Benzion Margulies Lecturer in Yiddish)
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London

More facts:

• Publisher: Bibliotheque Medem (Paris)
• Publication year: 2002
• 632 pages
• 37,000 words & phrases
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 2-9511372-7-3]