City College’s Institute of Yiddish Lexicology, which is publishing a 10-volume dictionary of the Yiddish language, has been given a $15,000 grant by the Charles E. Merrill Trust, it was announced Monday by Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, college president. The institute was established in 1965 for the purpose of compiling the dictionary which would contain “all the wealth created in Yiddish during the past 1,000 years,” Dr. Gallagher said. It is directed by Prof. Nathan Susskind of the Germanic and Slavic languages department.
Work on the dictionary was originally begun in Eastern Europe before World War II but materials collected at the time were either lost or destroyed. The present work dates back to 1953. Two of the 10 volumes have been published so far. The entire project is expected to take 15 years and will cost nearly a million dollars.
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