Risish-Yudisher Verter Bikh - Ruskii-Novoevreisko Plovar [Russian-Yiddish dictionary]

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

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Risish-Yudisher Verter Bikh - Ruskii-Novoevreisko Plovar [Russian-Yiddish dictionary]

Edited by Y.M. (Shiya-Modchai) Lifshits. Scarce 4-page errata at end. pp. 424, 225-6, 4. Some light browning in places. Contemporary boards. Sm. 4to.

Zhitomor: A.S. Shodov 1869

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,900

<<The first complete Yiddish dictionary in any language.>> The Harvard University Online Catalogue lists this 1869 edition however their link is to a later dictionary (Kiev, 1881). JNUL only has a later 1874 edition of Lifshits’s dictionary. For the importance of the author see I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. 13 pp 106-7. “His Yiddish-Russian dictionary…to the present day has not lost its scholarly value.”