Biografía del autor

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is Yiddish Language Editor for Afn shvel magazine and a published poet whose works include Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain. She worked with her father Mordkhe Schaechter on his numerous Yiddish publications, including collaborating with him in compiling this dictionary.

Paul Glasser is former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has spent many years working with Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter as a student and colleague.