The Yiddish language, the rich cultural treasure of Ashkenazi Jews, is more than 1,000 years old, and flourished in Central and Eastern Europe for centuries until the Holocaust, when six million Jews, many of them Yiddish speakers, were murdered by the Nazis. Yiddish has seen the production of numerous dictionaries, with the earliest one published at the end of the 16th century. As a result of migration over time, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, Yiddish-speaking communities appeared in many other geographic areas of the world, including the United States, Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Israel and elsewhere. Consequently, Yiddish dictionaries - most of them bilingual - were produced for use in these other cultures where Yiddish continued to be actively spoken and taught. This conversation traces the history of some of those dictionaries, with the main focus on the development over decades of the most recent bilingual dictionary, the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2016; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2021).