Yes, you can say it in Yiddish! The making of a new English-Yiddish dictionary

Prior to the publication of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2016, first edition), the most recent English-Yiddish dictionary was Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published in 1968. Although that pioneering work was reprinted numerous  times, it was never updated. Why did it take nearly 50 years to publish  a different English-Yiddish dictionary? What were its beginnings? How  is it different? What difficulties were faced in bringing the work to  fruition? What has been its impact? These and other questions will be  discussed and addressed.

Gitl  Schaechter-Viswanath has spent most of her years devoted to the  perpetuation of the Yiddish language, in both her personal and  professional life. She is currently the board chair of the League for Yiddish, which holds the copyright to the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, as  well as other pedagogical textbooks and terminologies to assist both  teachers and students of Yiddish. She is the language editor of Afn Shvel (the  magazine of the League for Yiddish), and has edited numerous Yiddish  books and magazines over the years. A Yiddish poet, she has published in  various Yiddish publications, as well as in her volume of poetry, Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain (2003). Her three children were raised speaking Yiddish, and now speak the language to their own children.