Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

9/1/1973 - 11/30/1975

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$100,000.00 (approved)
$100,000.00 (awarded)


The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language

FAIN: RO-12127-73

CUNY Research Foundation (New York, NY 10036-0150)
Nathan Susskind (Project Director: September 1973 to present)

For continued support to compile a complete dictionary of the Yiddish language, from earliest extant records to present world-wide dispersion of the language. Entries to include not only definitions and roots, but usages, social patterns and beliefs.