Dialect Jokebooks and Russian-Yiddish and English-Yiddish Dictionaries (Chapter in The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century)
Edited by Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran
- Advances new arguments and theories about the development of lexicography and how changes in the nineteenth century resonate today
- Covers a wide range of languages, and represents the first time some of these dictionaries have been addressed by academic scholarship
- Draws on unpublished and archival material not previously analyzed in the literature
