German Language Humanities : Yiddish Studies

Part of the Bibliotheca Augustana, a digital library of online texts from the literatures of the world, the Bibliotheca Iiddica offers a chronological index of Yiddish literary history, an alphabetical index of pages devoted to Yiddish writers and texts, and links to additional useful resources.
The advantage of the Bibliotheca Iiddica is that these digital sources are referenced by writer or by century.

Searchable online Yiddish-English dictionary, includes idioms, examples of usage, and dialect forms; with coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, Romance, and Germanic.

The National Yiddish Book Center is proud to offer online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge. These titles were scanned under the auspices of our Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, and have been made available online through the Internet Archive. Former title: Yiddish Books Online. (Updates ongoing)

Searchable collection of newspapers in ten languages published in the U.S., primarly focused on Czechs, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Polish, and Slovak communities.

Ongoing Yiddish language bibliographical project that records the contents of nearly 1000 periodicals published worldwide from 1862 onward.

A resource for the field of Jewish linguistics, providing information about several Jewish languages (including Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Italian, Jewish English, and Jewish Neo-Aramaic) and about some of the researchers who have written about them

Digitized collection of Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe, from 16th century to early 20th century.

With more than 9,000 78rpm discs covering 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, this collection offers an unparalleled audio entrée into the vibrant, fascinating cultural practices of early- mid 20th century Yiddish life

Dedicated to studying and preserving Yiddish music and culture, teaching it to new generations, and supporting scholarship that explores it as an important facet of Jewish and American life

A virtual museum of Jewish history and geneaology, covering Yiddish speaking Jews and Jews in the United States. Includes films, audio records, and book texts. (Updates ongoing)

Index to articles and books in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages, covering various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Israel.

Registration (free) is required. Allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide

A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly)

Located in Amherst, MA, the Yiddish Book Center is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. Includes a digital Yiddish library of more than 11,000 titles, contemporary oral histories, lectures, Yiddish audiobooks, short films about Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture; Yiddish works in translation; Yiddish language learning tools;and more

contains about 800 very valuable Yiddish books that belong to the Frankfurt University Library. The texts were printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe. The dates range from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. (Unknown update schedule)

A portal for anyone interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies, arranged in three main sections: events, reference and research