Research Resources in Yiddish Studies

Index:

 

GENERAL ONLINE RESOURCES

Web Gateways and Key Websites:

Online Indexes:

Catalogue Book Searches:

Oxford Bibliographies:

Online Scholarly Forums:

Select Jewish and Yiddish Library and Archival Resources:

Select Online Jewish/Yiddish Encyclopedias:

 

DIGITAL LITERATURE: ARCHIVES & DATABASES

National web portals:

  • Judaica Europeana (Jewish digital heritage project: documents, maps, multimedia, etc.)
  • ePaveldas (web portal for the digital cultural heritage of Lithuania, including 300 items in Yiddish)
  • pl (Portal for digitized content from Poland; specifically Yiddish content: Literatura jidysz (Yiddish literature), with 232 titles. Also, Sztetl (shtetl) has postcard images as the predominant format.

Newspapers:

Literature indexes and collections:

  • Ale verk fun Sholem-Aleykhem (texts can be read in the original, Unicode, transliteration, and gloss.
  • Indexes to the Works Sholem-Aleykhem (PDF set of indexes to stories and other writings by Sholem Aleichem)
  • “Yiddish Leksikon” blog (translation of over 3,000 articles from the Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur – Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature, 1956-1981. 8 vols.)
  • Detskie knigi na idish iz fondov OLSAA (Yiddish children’s books from the collections of the Russian National Library)
  • Fenno-Ugrica – Hebraica (contains digitized Yiddish works produced during the last decades of the Russian Empire)
  • org (includes Yiddish titles, including issues of Yivo-bleter from 1931 to 1942)
  • Jiddische Drucke (800 Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe)
  • Digital Yiddish Library (Yiddish Book Center: more than 11,000 Yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge)
  • Yizkor Books (Yiddish Book Center: memorial books that document Jewish life before World War II, and during the Holocaust and its aftermath)
  • Yiddish Children’s Literature (Yiddish Book Center: 800 titles)
  • org (Yiddish titles include YIVO publications Yidishe shprakh (1941-1984) and Yivo-bleter (1932-1962))

Audio:

  • Yiddish Audio Books (Yiddish Book Center: books and short stories read aloud by native speakers, recorded in the 1980s and ‘90s at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal)
  • Archival Recordings (Yiddish Book Center: lectures by and interviews with Yiddish writers, recorded at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal between [1951] and 2005)
  • Oral Histories (Yiddish Book Center: in-depth video interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds)
  • Der leyenzal (small online repository of academic lectures in Yiddish on literary topics)

Music, Theater & Cinema:

 

LINGUISTIC SCHOLARSHIP

Dialects:

Online Dictionaries:

Tools for typing Yiddish:

 

YIDDISH SUMMER PROGRAMS

Europe:

Israel

United States