who was responsible for editing the "Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary".?
Uriel Weinreich Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך‎ "Uriel Vaynraykh", ] ; 23 May 1926 – 30 March 1967) was a Polish-American linguist.
YIVO YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ , ] ), established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania) as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Yiddish: ייִדישער װיסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט , ] , Yiddish Scientific Institute), is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia, as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. (The word "yidisher" means both "Yiddish" and "Jewish".) The English name of the organization was changed to the Institute for Jewish Research subsequent to its relocation to New York City, although it is still primarily known by its Yiddish acronym. YIVO is now a member of the Center for Jewish History. It serves as the "de facto" recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language.