Basic Bibliography for the Study of Yiddish

1 Textbooks

Weinreich, U. 1971⁵. College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Schaechter, M. 2003⁴. Yiddish II: An Intermediate and Advanced Textbook. New York: Yiddish Language Resource Center, League for Yiddish.
Goldberg, D. 1996. Yidish af yidish: Grammatical, Lexical, and Conversational Materials for the Second and Third Years of Study. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Weinreich, U. 1968. Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Harkavy, A. 1988² [1928]. Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Niborski, Y. 1999. װערטערבוך פֿון לשון-קודש-שטאַמיקע װערטער אין ייִדיש. Paris: Bibliothèque Medem.

Katz, D. 1987. Grammar of the Yiddish Language. London: Duckworth.
Mark, Y. 1978. גראַמאַטיק פֿון דער ייִדישער כּלל-שפּראַך. New York: Congress for Jewish Culture.
Jacobs, N. 2005. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press.

Harshav, B. 1990. The Meaning of Yiddish. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1980. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 24: Sociology of Yiddish. The Hague: Mouton.
Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1981. Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters. The Hague: Mouton.
Fishman, J. A. 1991. Yiddish: Turning to Life. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Goldsmith, E. S. 1987. Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement. New York: Shapolsky.

Katz, D. 2004. Word on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish. New York: Basic Books.
Baumgarten, J. 1990. Le yiddish. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Baumgarten, J. 2002. Le yiddish, histoire d'une langue errante. Paris: Albin Michel.
Weissberg, J. 1988. Jiddisch: Eine Einführung. Bern: Peter Lang.
Weinreich, M. 1973. געשיכטע פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.