Yiddish
AHEYM: The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories
From Indiana University.. A linguistic and oral history project that includes Yiddish language interviews with approximately 380 people, most of whom were born between the 1900s and the 1930s. The interviews were conducted in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia between 2002 and 2012.
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Digital Yiddish Library
From the National Yiddish Book Center. "Since 2009, we've made more than 11,000 titles available online in our Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library. The comprehensive collection includes works of fiction, memoirs, poetry, plays, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more, by the most renowned Yiddish authors and lesser-known writers alike. "
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Fenno-Ugrica Hebraica Collection
From the National Library of Finland. "The Hebraica collection contains digitized works in Yiddish. It is a selection of literary works, which were published in Yiddish during the last decades of the Russian Empire and which the library received as deposit copies. In addition to literary works of the Hebraica collection of the National Library of Finland, the online collection contains digitized text books in Yiddish. The items were originally published in former Soviet Union during the 1920s and the 1930s."
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Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library
From the National Yiddish Book Center. "The Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library contains remastered recordings of lectures by and interviews with writers and poets who visited the Jewish Public Library of Montreal between 1953 and 2005. "
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Hebrew and Yiddish Language Materials from Poland
From the National Digital Library Polona. "A selection of most outstanding representatives of Yiddish literature written before World War II."
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Ruth Rubin Archive of Yiddish Folksongs
From YIVO. 1,500 Yiddish folksongs recorded by Ruth Rubin between 1946 and the 1970s that “can be browsed by song title, genre, performer, and more, the exhibition includes a variety of materials including lectures, concerts, radio interviews, videos, and rare and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and more.”
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Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books
From the National Yiddish Book Center. "Recorded in the 1980s and ’90s at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. It comprises some 150 titles."
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The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
From McGill University. "2300 Yiddish works, mostly poetry, and includes many rare volumes, most of which have been preserved in vintage condition by beautiful hand-made jackets fashioned by Joe Fishstein, the Bronx garment worker who amassed them."
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The Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings
From University of Wisconsin Madison. Over 9,000 78rpm discs include Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music, poetry, drama, and event ballads and from locations as diverse as the United States, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Israel.
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Wexler Oral History Project
From the National Yiddish Book Center. "Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 700 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture."
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Yiddish Children’s Book Collection
From Florida Atlantic University. "This digital collection of children’s books include original stories by Yiddish authors that include Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Pat, and Sholem Asch. The collection also includes Yiddish translations of non-Jewish children’s stories by such authors as Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Grimm. "
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Yiddish Sheet Music
From Brown University. "700 of around 2,000 public domain (i.e. pre-1923) titles from the collection of Menache Vaxer, a Yiddish writer and Hebraist of Russia. "
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Yiddish Theater Collection
From the New York Public Library. "Material from the early productions of the New York Yiddish stage and Yiddish theater productions in Buenos Aires in its belated years of glory during the 1930s and 1940s. “
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YIVO Books
From the The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books. "A number of books from the collection of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research which are available on the website YIVOLibraryBooks.org. "
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Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
From the Library of Congress. Includes the Irene Heskes Collection of Yiddish American sheet music."
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Yiddish Song of the Week
From the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project (AJFRP). "Field recordings of traditional Yiddish folksingers from around the world contributed by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, musicians, singers and collectors. Each Yiddish song will be presented with Yiddish words and translation, along with commentary from the contributor."
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Digital Yiddish Theater Project
From the Digital Yiddish Theater Project. Digitized information about the people, places, subjects and periods of the Yiddish theater.
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The Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry
From Columbia University. "5,755 hours of audio tape field interviews with Yiddish speaking informants collected between 1959 and 1972 and about 100,000 pages of accompanying linguistic field notes. You can browse the collection by name of interviewee, region, city and document type."
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Yiddish Prints (Jiddische Drucke)
From Goethe University. A database of nearly 800 Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central, and East Europe from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century . While not all texts have been edited with OCR nor are fully text searchable, all texts are downloadable as PDF documents.
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Online Treasury of Yiddish Poetry
Created by Raphael (Raphi) Halff, this collection of Yiddish poems contains the original Yiddish, English translations and readings of the poems, as well as biographies of the poets.
