Yiddish Cultural Dictionary: the Vilner Verterbukh (Vilna Yiddish Dictionary). Based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Initiated in January 2018. Work in progress, please report omissions and errors (at: info@yiddishculturaldictiomary.org). Over 50,000 entries and around 1,700 notes (all in Yiddish) to summer 2026.
Free (and no log-in) English-Yiddish dictionary reuniting classic literary, religious, and secular Yiddish. Eyes on the future.
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ווילנער
ווערטערבוך
בחינם אויפן אינטערנעט
אויף ווערטער וואָס פעלן, און אויף טעותן, קען מען אָנווײַזן דורכן אימייל
„אידיש ויידיש בלשון אחת“
בווילנא
ווילנא תשפ″ו ווילנע 2026
AN ENGLISH-YIDDISH DICTIONARY
( VILNER VERTERBUKH: A WORK IN PROGRESS IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (DRAFT
by
Dovid Katz
in memory of my father Menke Katz and to inspire this dictionary’s users to read his poetry in Yiddish, in English, and in translation
compiled with reference to the author’s earlier work in Yiddish stylistics, grammar, linguistics & sociolinguistics, history, dialectology, in-situ expeditions, orthography, editing of journals & academic anthologies, original fiction, Bible translation, and other fields of Yiddish; current and recent projects
הילע געצייכנט פון גיעדרע בעצאָניטע | Cover illustration by Giedrė Beconytė
Vilnius 2026