The Times of Israel

Merriam-Webster dictionary to change its definition of racism

Screen capture of the Merriam-Webster dictionary entry for the term 'racism,' June 10, 2020. (Merriam-Webster) NEW YORK — The American reference dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its ...
The Forward

A Digitized Dictionary Illuminates The Talmud, Though Some Prefer To Stay Offline

Gray’s Anatomy. Roget’s Thesaurus. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Some reference books are so famous, they are known simply by the last name of their author. Add to that list Jastrow’s, a ...
Slate

The Book Every Movie Lover Should Own

This month sees the release of the sixth edition of David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film, published for the first time in 1975. The book—now 1,154 pages long, with over 1,400 entries, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...