Cover; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Section A: Introductory Essays; 1 A Brief Account of Solomon Birnbaum's Life; 2 Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in its Historical and Cultural Context; 3 Solomon A. Birnbaum: An Appreciation of a Lifetime of Scholarship on Yiddish; Section B: Solomon A. Birnbaum's Yiddish, a Survey and a Grammar (1979); Section C: 2016 Bibliography and General Index; 2016 Supplement to the Bibliography; General Index to the 2016 Edition