Resources on the Web

Yiddish Language and Literature:

Arele: Online Yiddish workbooks and other resources.
www.yiddish.com.mx

The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture: Online Yiddish courses and other cultural programming.
www.yiddishculture.org

The Vilnius Yiddish Institute: Dedicated to preserving the centuries-old heritage of Yiddish language and culture through teaching and scholarly research of the highest quality.
www.judaicvilnius.com

Yiddish Web: A guide to all things Yiddish -- in French, no less. Sponsored by the New Yiddish Center of Paris.
www.yiddishweb.com

Yiddish Studies at Columbia University: Info on the Columbia/Yivo summer program, the Spoken Yiddish Language Project, Yiddish graduate and undergraduate programs, and more.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/departments/yiddish-studies/department.html

The Yiddish Department at Berkeley: Events, courses, programs, and other helpful resources.
http://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/html

The Library at the Jewish Theological Seminary: Course offerings in Yiddish language, literature, folklore, and music.
www.jtsa.edu/library.xml

The Yisroel Shtern Project by the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilization presents the work of one of Warsaw's leading poets and essayists in Yiddish, along with representative English translations.
www.yisroelshtern.org

Yiddish Sources aims to be a comprehensive source of information for those who are interested in using Yiddish materials in their research. The information is arranged in three main sections: reference, research and events.
www.yiddish-sources.com

A web site dedicated to the poets, both in the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere whose poetry, under the leadership of Emanuel Ringelblum, was secretly collected and buried in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
www.poetryinhell.org

 

Genealogy and History:

JewishGen: Find out where you come from -- shtetlekh (ancestral towns), family names and a great deal more.
www.jewishgen.org

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research: The preeminent address for scholarly research on Yiddish and East European Jewish culture.
www.yivoinstitute.org

The Jewish Women's Archive is devoted to making known the stories, struggles and achievements of Jewish women in North America, including their new interactive feature, On the Map.
www.jwa.org

 

Yiddish Community:

Der Bay: The Golden Gate to the world-wide Yiddish community.
www.derbay.org

International Association of Yiddish Clubs: List of Yiddish clubs in the United States, Spain and Colombia, plus an on-line application form for joining the IAYC.
www.derbay.org/iayc.html

Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish: An organization of young Yiddish speakers.
www.yugntruf.org

YiddishKayt LA: News of Jewish happenings in Los Angeles.
yiddishkaytla.org

Shtetl: Yiddish language and culture, featuring numerous international links, including to synagogues worldwide.
www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/shul.html

Up-to-the-minute weather reports in transliterated Yiddish!
yiddishtransliterated.wunderground.com

Film:

The National Center for Jewish Film: Where to find Yiddish films; the latest in Jewish cinema.
www.jewishfilm.org

The Jewish Heritage Video Collection: Includes a comprehensive video library with over 200 titles, a film group guide, and other tools for using film to learn about important topics in Jewish life.
www.jhvc.org

Food:

A maykhl farn baykhl - Share recipes with Jewish cooks around the world.
www.jewishrecipetrader.com

Music:

Yiddish Song of the Week: Hear a new, master folksinger each week. Created by the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project of NYC, who seek to research and revitalize the practice of traditional Jewish arts.
yiddishsong.wordpress.com

Living Traditions: The organization that brings you KlezKamp and the Yiddish Radio Project.
http://www.livingtraditions.org

Ari Davidow’s Klezmer Shack: Klezmer news, the latest reviews, and band listings.
http://www.klezmershack.com

The Judaica Music Rescue Project at the Florida Atlantic University: Digitizing and preserving Yiddish audio recordings. Search for a song or find out how to donate your old records.
www.fau.edu/jewishmusic

Yiddish Sheet Music: A Brown University Library Digital Collection
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/yiddish

The National Jukebox at the Library of Congress makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge, including many in Yiddish.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/search/results?q=yiddish

 The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco meets every Tuesday night  to sing beautiful music  mostly in Yiddish but also in Ladino, Russian, and Hebrew.
www.jewishfolkchorussf.org

 

Theater and Art:

Manuscripts and printed Yiddish plays at the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vsyid.html

The Folksbiene Yiddish Theater: A nonprofit organization in New York committed to preserving, promoting, and developing Yiddish theater for future and current generations.
http://www.folksbiene.org

The Moshe Rynecki Virtual Museum: A collection of paintings by artist Moshe Rynecki that were found by his family after the Holocaust: www.rynecki.org  You can also find an excerpt from his great-grand daughter's documentary, "Chasing Portraits", at: www.youtube.com/watch

In Western Mass:

Our neighbor, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, features art by its founder plus a changing exhibits by other illustrators and artists.
http://www.picturebookart.org

Hampshire College: The National Yiddish Book Center is located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
http://www.hampshire.edu

Valleyvisitor.com: The Pioneer Valley Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. Info on restaurants, accommodations, and visitor attractions in Amherst and the surrounding area.
http://www.valleyvisitor.com

Museums10 is a consortium forged to celebrate the collections and promote the programs of its affiliated museums to local, regional, and national visitors. This dynamic collaboration heightens awareness of the distinctive offerings of the individual institutions while highlighting the cultural diversity and outstanding educational resource that they collectively represent.
http://www.museums10.org

Yiddish Publications Online:

The Forward: America’s most venerable Yiddish newspaper.
http://yiddish.forward.com

Der Bavebter Yid
http://cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/bavebter

Yiddish On Your Computer:

UYIP - Understanding Yiddish Information Processing: How to bring mame loshn to your own PC.
www.uyip.org

Refoyl's yidish veb-bletl: Yiddish texts, song database, and computer resources.
http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html

March 10, 2010