Yiddish Culture Online
New 900-page, two-volume textbook with on-line companion website. Published by Yiddish Book Center in 2020. Written by Asya Vaisman Schulman and Jordan Brown with Mikhl Yashinsky, In eynem is the first fully-illustrated, multimedia Yiddish textbook that uses the communicative approach to language learning. With this book, students use language as...
Several organizations host online Yiddish discussion/conversation groups: • KlezCalifornia's Flisik Yidish Salon, monthly, Sundays, 2-3pm PT. Each participant gives brief comments (in Yiddish) on the month's theme, followed by an open conversation. For fluent speakers. Hosted by Rosie Kaplan and Evie Groch. • YOMC, Yiddish Open Mic Café, several times...
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YiddishPOP is a lively, engaging interactive program that teaches Yiddish to speakers of other languages. Its lessons are built around animated movies and supporting features that introduce and reinforce vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, reading comprehension, and writing skills. New concepts are couched in everyday situations, adding context for learners and helping...
Enter an English word to find its Yiddish equivalent, or a Yiddish word in transliteration or in alef beys to find its English definition. Links Yiddish blogs written by Sholem Berges and Noam Stariks. A few tables of Yiddish grammar.
In Yiddish: News, cooking shows, crossword puzzles, and more. Word of the Day videos.
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Blog about food and Yiddish by The Chocolate Lady
KlezCalifornia is a non-profit San Francisco Bay Area organization founded in 2003 that connects people and communities with Yiddish culture. You are on KlezCalifornia's website! As KlezCalifornia celebrates our 20th anniversary connecting people and communities with Yiddish culture in 2023, we are announcing our transition to a facilitating organization. We...
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Henry Sapozniks' website is clearinghouse of a lifetime of his passions, enthusiasms, and projects including but not limited to old time country music, Yiddish vaudeville, scratchy old records, banjo, Tin Pan Alley, Yiddish radio, early animation, competition bullseye pistol, and black and white movies. Subscribe to the blog. Henry Sapoznik...
YAAANA, The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, provides Yiddish education and cultural programming to the San Diego area and beyond. Online programs include Yiddish language courses at beginner and intermediate levels. In Summer 2025, classes are offered at four different levels via Zoom.
Illustrated Yiddish proverbs, aphorisms, insults, curses, and other folk sayings, in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation
New York-based archival collections and library, including YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, a massive collection on arts, daily life, places, language and literature, history and religion. Includes Yiddish song recordings. YIVO Sound Archives on-line. Online courses on Ashkenazi culture, some with free registration.
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Throughout the year, YIVO offers courses in Yiddish language and electives in Jewish history and culture that are open to the general public. In Fall 2024, in addition to electives in English and Yiddish, YIVO is offering 4 levels of beginning Yiddish, 4 levels of intermediate Yiddish, 3 levels of...
Founded in 1990 by Lowell Milken, chairman and co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is committed to preserving and presenting music of the American Jewish experience; music that reflects the scope and variety of Jewish life in America, and also demonstrates the universality of...
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The Yiddish Book Center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture. Site has extensive resources on language, literature, and more.
A comprehensive website dedicated to Sholem Aleichem [1859-1916], the most popular and iconic Jewish writer of his generation. As you explore this site you’ll discover more about the remarkable life and equally remarkable afterlife of the man whose works have traveled continents, inspired generations, and provided the material for the legendary Broadway musical Fiddler...
The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project [DYTP] uses digital technology to study and preserve the rich legacy of the Yiddish stage. Founded in 2012 by Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan, the DYTP comprises theatrical practitioners, research librarians, and scholars in higher education, who are among the world's leading authorities on Yiddish...
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Founded in 2010, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the nation’s leading centers for the study, documentation, and dissemination of Yiddish music and culture. The collection contains over 8,000 78rpm discs including Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music,...
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