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

(RUSSIA).

A.S. Shodov

Zhitomor

1869

Edited by Y.M. (Shiya-Modchai) Lifshits. Scarce 4-page errata at end.

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.”