who was responsible for editing the "Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary".?
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Max Weinreich Max Weinreich (22 April 1894 in Kuldīga, Russian Empire, now Latvia – 29 January 1969 in New York City, United States) was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the "Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary".
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Uriel Weinreich Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך‎ "Uriel Vaynraykh", ] ; 23 May 1926 – 30 March 1967) was a Polish-American linguist.
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Peretz Markish Peretz Davidovich Markish (Yiddish: פּרץ מאַרקיש‎ ) (Russian: Перец Давидович Маркиш ) (7 December 1895 (25 November OS) – 12 August 1952) was a Soviet/Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish.
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Abraham Weiss Abraham Weiss (1895–1970), professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University (1940–1967) in New York City is best known for his contribution to the development of the scientific study of Talmud. A noted Talmudic scholar, both in the traditional and academic sense, he is credited with delineating a methodology for a critical textual based study of Talmud.
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YIVO YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ , ] ), established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania) as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Yiddish: ייִדישער װיסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט , ] , Yiddish Scientific Institute), is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia, as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. (The word "yidisher" means both "Yiddish" and "Jewish".) The English name of the organization was changed to the Institute for Jewish Research subsequent to its relocation to New York City, although it is still primarily known by its Yiddish acronym. YIVO is now a member of the Center for Jewish History. It serves as the "de facto" recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language.
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Leon Kellner Leon Kellner (Hebrew ליאון קלנר) (17 April 18595 December 1928) was an English lexicographer, grammarian, and Shakespearian scholar. He was also a political activist and a promoter of Zionism.
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Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער — "Avrom Sutskever"; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. "The New York Times" wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."
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Saul Berman Saul J. Berman (born April 30, 1939) is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi.
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Mordechai Tsanin Mordechai Tsanin (Yiddish: מרדכי צאנין‎ ; Hebrew: מרדכי צאנין‎ ‎ ; 1 April 1906 – 4 February 2009) was a Yiddish language author, journalist and lexicographer and a leading figure in post-war Israeli Yiddish culture.
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Yiddish grammar The morphology and syntax of the Yiddish language bears many similarities to that of German, with crucial elements originating from Slavic languages, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
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Esther Frumkin Esther Frumkin born Khaye Malke Lifshits (1880-1943), published under the mononym Esther, Yiddish: עסטער‎ , was a leader of the Yiddish socialist General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, and later of the Yevsektsiya in the Soviet Union.
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Abraham Aaron Roback Abraham Aaron Roback (1890–1965) was a Jewish American psychologist and promoter of Yiddish.
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David Weiss Halivni David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew: דוד וייס הלבני‎ ‎ ) (born 1927) is a European-born American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud.
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Henry Sapoznik Henry "Hank" Sapoznik (Yiddish: העניק סאַפאַזשניק‎ ; born 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) is an award winning author, record and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music.
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Folksbiene The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English. The company's leadership consists of CEO Christopher Massimine, artistic director Zalmen Mlotek (considered to be one of the world's top authorities on Yiddish culture), associate artistic director Motl Didner. The notably distinguished board is chaired by Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, principal at Bernstein Global Wealth Management.
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Pinchas Kehati Pinchas Kehati (1910 – December 21, 1976) was the author of משניות מבוארות "Mishnayot Mevuarot" (literally "Clarified Mishnayos", popularly known as "the "Kehati Mishnayot"") which is a commentary and elucidation on the entire Mishnah. This work was written in Modern Hebrew. This work was translated into English and published in 1994 as "The Mishnah".
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Samuel Schafler Samuel Schafler (February 20, 1929 – April 3, 1991) was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator. He was Superintendent of the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and President of Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Esther Kreitman Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Biłgoraj, Congress Poland to a rabbinic Jewish family. Her younger brothers Israel Joshua Singer and Isaac Bashevis Singer subsequently became writers.
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Peretz Smolenskin Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin (Hebrew: פרץ (פטר) סמולנסקין‎ ;1885–1842), was a Russian Jewish novelist who wrote in Hebrew.
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Ruth Wisse Ruth R. Wisse (pronounced "wice"; born May 13, 1936) is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
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Zrubavel Gilad Zrubavel Gilad (Hebrew: זרובבל גלעד‎ ‎ , also Hebrew: זרבבל גלעד‎ ‎ ; b. 9 December 1912, d. 12 August 1988) was a Hebrew poet, editor and translator.
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Ber Borochov Dov Ber Borochov (Russian: Дов-Бер Борохов ; July 3, 1881 – December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement and unusally for a Zionist, as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language.