The Yiddish Cultural Dictionary (YCD | Vilner Verterbukh | The Vilna Yiddish Dictionary)
is a free, no-login, online English-Yiddish dictionary (© 2026; endorsements). Initiated in Jan. 2018. The 2026 edition comprises around 50,000 main entries plus 1,700 cultural and linguistic notes (all in Yiddish).
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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“
—פון—
בווילנא
ווילנא תשפ″ו ווילנע 2026
AN ENGLISH-YIDDISH DICTIONARY
( VILNER VERTERBUKH: A WORK IN PROGRESS IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (DRAFT
www.YiddishCulturalDictionary.org
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
Vilnius 2026