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דער לעקסיקאָן פון ליטווישן אידיש

A Lexicon of Lithuanian Yiddish (in progress)  by Yeynesn Felendler Comments and additions welcome ( felendlerks@gmail.com )  © Y. Felendler 2022  Specializes in translation of Yiddish (handwriting and printed sources), quotes provided on request __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: The purpose of this lexicon is to concentrate on the Lithuanian dialect of Yiddish, particularly, the way it was spoken before World War II. Lithuanian Yiddish has many subdialects. The dialect of the publisher of this lexicon is the one associated with Vilna and the surrounding region, and that will be the focus here as well. Our goal is to focus and research the way it was spoken by the common folk, i.e. those who were not influenced by the Yiddishist movement. Yiddishists have created linguistic rules and standards that were not characteristic and/or customary t