Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms

There are numerous reference guides to things Jewish, Judaic, Hebraic, Israeli, and Yiddish, and lexicographer Steinmetz provides a good list of them at the end of his Dictionary of Jewish Usage. He edited or contributed to some of them, like the American Jewish Desk Reference (American Jewish Historical Society, 1999). His Yiddish and English (Steinmetz, 1986, 2001) is less well‐known but more fascinating than Leo Rosten's famous The Joys of Yiddish (Rosten, 1968) and its companions. Steinmetz rightly says that some dictionaries, like Merriam, see Hebrew and Yiddish terms as naturalized, while...