The Yiddish Voice / DOS YIDISHE KOL / דאָס ייִדישע קול On WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, Massachusetts USA Listen LIVE Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 p.m. (Note: that's 7:30 p.m. Boston Time) A Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston's Yiddish-speaking community. A Yiddish Internet resource. E-Mail: radio@yv.org Twitter: @TheYiddishVoice Facebook: @YidishKol Web: http://www.yiddishvoice.com Station Mailing Address: Yiddish Voice, c/o WUNR, 60 Temple Pl Boston, MA 02111 Phone: (617) 730-8484 * WUNR Request Line: (617) 350-9931 (only call during the show) Podcast: The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast: Episodes Subscribe/follow: Apple | Spotify | YouTube | RSS

Listen to our Station ID and Intro: Intro Voice: Chasia Segal (Yiddish Voice cohost, shown in photo) Theme Song: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz. Table of Contents: Announcements -- current events of interest to you Audio -- audio by and/or about us Other Audio -- audio by others we'd like you to know about Recent Program Rundowns -- summaries of our past radio shows, some with audio Sholom Aleichem -- a very special audio treat: the voice of Sholom Aleichem Quotes -- inspiring words Other radio shows and podcasts -- other Yiddish radio shows (and quasiradio shows) and podcasts Yiddish Links -- handcrafted, up-to-date links for the Yiddish-interested public Contacts -- contact information for many key Yiddish institutions Advertisements/Sponsors -- list of our supporters

> Israel Book Shop Boston's Jewish Book and Gift Shop 410 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446 Tel 617-566-7113 israelbookshop.com Generous support has been provided by the following organizations: American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston, Cheryl Ann's Of Brookline, The Butcherie, Israel Book Shop, BLER Travel, BBJCF (Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund) of CJP, the League for Yiddish, Inc., TheWorld.com, Cafe Eilat, Marquis Jewelers. To advertise on The Yiddish Voice, call +1-617-730-8484. Featured External Site: Sheva Zucker's blog Parshe Poetry Many more Yiddish links below! Interested in Yiddish on Computers? Join the UYIP (Understanding Yiddish Information Processing) mailing list to ask questions and join in the discussion and planning. Information on using computers for Yiddish, and on subscribing to UYIP at: http://www.uyip.org

Announcements

• Click here for an archive of past significant Yiddish Voice announcements.
  
  
• Follow @TheYiddishVoice on Twitter and @YidishKol on Facebook.

• Some yiddish-related event listings around the web:

  • Events in Yiddish (Facebook)
    
    
  • Boston's Workers Circle's Yiddishkayt (circleboston.org/yiddishkayt/)
    
    
  • Jordan Kutzik's Learn Yiddish @Yiddishclasses Twitter Feed
    
    
  • Klezmershack's KLEZCALENDAR - Jewish music events around the world
  
  
  
  • The NCJF (National Center for Jewish Film) keeps track of worldwide Screenings of Yiddish Films (well, at least many of them are in Yiddish).

Yiddish Voice Internet Audio Service

• 13 November 2002: interview with Benjamin Harshav, Yale University, editor of The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, a translation of Herman Kruk's Vilner Ghetto diary. Also with readings from the English translation by the book's translator, Barbara Harshav. Listen
  
  
• Interview with Szulim Rozenberg originally aired Weds., 28 August 2002: Dovid Braun talks with Szulim Rozenberg of the Medem Bibliotek (Paris), discussing among other things the forthcoming (Oct. '02) publication his wife's memoir: Girl With Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941 to 1945, an English translation from the original Yiddish.
  
  
• interview with Misha Alexandrovitch Z"L: upon receiving the sad news of the great cantor's death on July 3, 2002, in Munich at age 88, we posted this interview. It was conducted by Hasia Segal for The Yiddish Voice May 9, 1995, a few days before Alexandrovitch's arrival in Boston for a concert at the John Hancock Center, May 15, 1995. The interview was first aired on The Yiddish Voice in May 1995.
  
  
• Interview with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's oral scribe for fourteen years, one of the foremost authorities on the Rebbe's talks and writings, and author of the best-selling book Toward A Meaningful Life (and leader of the Meaningful Life Learning Center. (This interview was broadcast on The Yiddish Voice on December 17, 1997, as was announced in the Mendele mailing list, the Algemeiner Journal, and other web and print media.)
  
  
• Listen as Aaron Lebedeff sings his comedic ode to the American-Jewish immigrant experience in "vat ken yu makh?! es iz amerike" ("What can you do?! It's America", Vocalion recording A 67140).
  
  
  
• Droshe (sermon) by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe: Motsey Shabbos Koydesh Zoys Chanuka 5746, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson on the 8th night of Hanukkah, 1985 (Jewish Year 5746 ‏מוצאי שבת קודש, זאת חנוכּה תּשמ"ו ‏).

Other Interesting Internet Yiddish Audio Sites

• Steven Lasky's 'Yiddish Radio Hour' with your esteemed hosts Zalmen & Celia Zylbercweig, providing a history of the couple's 1950's-1960's-era, Los Angeles-based, daily Yiddish radio show, featuring a continually rotating "new" show from the show's reel-to-reel tape archive.
  
  
• The Yiddish Book Center Multimedia Library has a treasure trove of recordings, including the newly released and curated audio recordings from Montreal's Jewish Public Library.
  
  
• Kol Avrohom: Daf Ha-Yomi in Yiddish by HaRav Avrohom Karp ZT"L
  
  
• The Yiddish Radio Project, David Isay and Henry Sapoznik, Producers, is on the net, and Features a real audio shmorgasbord of American Jewish/Yiddish radio from its golden age.
  
  
• Visit The Daily Sicho (http://www.sichos.com/) to hear the Daily Yiddish Sichos of the Lubavitscher Rebbe.

Recent Programs

• Please see the Yiddish Voice Podcast Episodes Website for more recent rundowns and recordings!
  
  
• More Rundowns - Click Here.

Sholom Aleichem!

(above: the writer Sholom Aleichem)

12 Iyar 5756 / 1 May 1996 sholem aleykhem leyent for! tsum 80tn yortsayt funem grestn yidishn shrayber fun ale yidishe shraybers presentirn mir dem zeltenem rekordirtn klang funem mekhaber aleyn, forleyendik fun zayn mayses "ven ikh bin rotshild" un "a freylekher yontev", fun a disk vos er hot rekordirt in nyu york shpet in lebn, vos ligt in di arkhivn fun YIVO. oykh musik un mayses geshribn fun im oder basirt af zayn verk / In honor of the 80th year since the passing of the greatest of all Yiddish writers, we present the rare recorded sound of the author himself, reading from his stories "If I Were Rothschild [a rich man]" and "A Happy Holiday", from a record he recorded late in his life, which is now part of the YIVO Sound Archive. Also, we present music and stories written by him or based on his work.

Sholom Aleichem reads out loud!

Click on the above link to hear the voice of Sholom Aleichem reading.

You can also hear an introduction by Henry Sapoznik, founder and former head of the YIVO Sound Archive, from his May, 1991, Forward Hour (Forverts Sho) radio broadcast.

Favorite Quotations

"There's a big difference between `dead' and `dying'." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Sept. 1, 2007: Yiddish Voice Receives CJP Grant.: The Yiddish Voice radio show is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of US$2,500.00 from the Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for the coming year (2007-2008). The Yiddish Voice hopes to use the grant to make current programming as well as portions of its archive more widely available.
• July 23, 2005: Yiddish Voice Receives CJP Grant.: The Yiddish Voice radio show is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of US$1,000.00 from the Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for the coming year (2005-2006). As one of just 14 organizations, selected from an applicant pool of 34 organizations, to receive a portion of funds totalling US$40,650.00, the Yiddish Voice will use the grant to help operate, expand, improve Boston's award-winning Yiddish-language radio show, its associated web site yiddishvoice.com, and related activities and projects.
• Internationale Medienhilfe (IMH): Radio Show of the Year 1998 (Radioprogramm des Jahres: The Yiddish Voice) awarded to The Yiddish Voice in 1999.
• Naamat (Di Froyen Pioneren/Pioneer Women) Boston Chapter: Person of the Year (2000) awarded to Mark David as Host/Producer of The Yiddish Voice.

Other Yiddish Radio Shows of Interest

(Also podcasts, YouTube videos, Spotify podcasts, hotline broadcasters, Kol Mevaser, etc.)

• Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish, hosted and produced by Sosye Fox, featuring interviews, discussions, and music, with a focus on feminist issues. Available on most podcast platforms and Spotify. Transcripts and English translations available for most shows.
  
  
• Proste Yiddish: Simple Yiddish for Learners. Available on most podcast platforms and Spotify and YouTube. Transcripts and Yiddish-English glossaries available for most shows.
  
  
• Eitan Binstock's The Meta Shtetl, interviewing today's Yiddishists at the frontier of using technology to proliferate the Yiddish language and culture worldwide. Available on most podcast platforms and YouTube. Engish translations available for most shows.
  
  
• Chaim Ekstein and Pinchus Glauber's Git Gelt in Yiddish [גוט געלט אין ייִדיש], a weekly interview of financial expert Chaim Ekstein by Kol Mevaser personality Pinchus Glauber, discussing the stock market and related investment topics. Available on most podcast platforms, Spotify, and Kol Mevaser
  
  
• Kan Yiddish (כאן יידיש) on the radio in Israel on 104.9 and 105.3 FM (Kan Tarbut) every Friday at 2 p.m.; on 100.3, 100.5 and 101.3 FM (Kan REKA) every Friday at 3 p.m. as well as at midnight from Saturday to Sunday. This an hour-long weekly radio show heard on the national Tarbut and Reka radio networks of Israel. It may be up to about half in Hebrew, about Yiddish language and culture, and half in Yiddish on various themes. The show is sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture. Broadcasts began in July 2017. (The new show effectively replaces the previous daily all-Yiddish broadcast Kol Israel (קול ישׂראל), which ran for many years on the national Reka network of Israel, and which was canceled when Israel Broadcast Authority (IBA) was shut down, and a new Israeli national broadcasting authority came to be, named Kan (קאן).
  
  
• Radio Yiddish Pour Tous is a live Internet live-streaming service with most programs either bilingual Yiddish/French or Yiddish/English, or Yiddish made accessible in either French or English, or Yiddish language and culture topics discussed in those languages.
  
  
• Australia's Kadimah Yiddish Show: di kadime yidishe sho
  Hosted by Alex Dafner!
  Thursdays 4.00PM, Melbourne, Vic, Australia time until 5.00PM
  Streaming in real-time: www.j-air.com.au
  Via computer or Smart Phone on: J-Air Jewish Internet Radio
  Also available as a Podcast.
  Click here: Kadimah Yiddish Show for all listening modes, including access to past show archives.
  
  
• RadioShalom's Yiddish Program, in Copenhagen, Denmark, is broadcast on the FM band, at 87.6 MHz, on the third Wednesday of each month at 18:30 (local time). Some shows are archived on their web site: go to radioshalom.dk, then click on link "Yiddish" in the list labeled "Kategorier" along the left side of the page.
  
  
• Chareidi "Hotlines" (a kind of radio substitute via telephone)
  • Kol Mevaser (Yiddish24) Hotline number : +1 (212) 444-1100
  • Kol Satmar [Twitter] Hotline number: +1 (212) 444-9899
  • Kol Breslev Hotline number: +1 (212) 444-9191



• Chareidi "Bulletins" (a kind of radio substitute via app, web site, etc., just not via telephone)
  • Yiddish24 אידיש24 - website, iOS app, and Android app -- highly recommended, particularly Tam Skeynim טעם זקנים: interviews with elderly people (i.e., generally, with native Yiddish speakers born in Europe)



• Winnipeg Jewish Radio Hour: Jewish radio programming in Winnipeg every Sunday on radio station CKJS, 810AM, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM Central time. It can be heard online at www.ckjs.com. The first half hour is in English. The second half, from 2:00 to 2:30, is in Yiddish, hosted by Rochelle Zucker. There's also complete archive of all shows available for download: Click here for the Winnipeg Jewish Radio Hour archive.
  
  
• Judaiques FM sur 94.8 - in France, a full-time Jewish radio show, primarily in the French language, but also featuring some Yiddish programming, including this: De 22h20 a 23h00: "UNZER MAGAZINE", le magazine Yiddish de Judaiques fm prisentie par Arielle Sion en alternance avec "Mayses un melodihs" prisentie igalement par Arielle Sion. The broadcasts can be heard live over the internet from the station's web site at http://www.judaiquesfm.com.
  
  
• 3ZZZ (92.3 FM) - in Melbourne Australia, the country's largest ethnic community station, broadcasts in Yiddish every Sunday from 11.00am to 11.30am. The broadcasts are archived and can be heard over the internet from the station's web site at http://www.3zzz.com.au. From there select "Jewish [SUN 11-12noon]" under the "LISTEN TO A SHOW" menu. Yiddish news of the week from 3ZZZ can be heard at the website of The Australian Jewish News (www.ajn.com.au).
  
  
• Chagigah, Sundays, 8-11 AM, WERS 88.9 FM/Boston: a Jewish radio show heard every Sunday in Boston, features "Jewish", in practice mostly Yiddish, music during it's first hour, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The second two hours, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., are mostly filled with Israeli pop music and announcements in Hebrew and English. On WERS 88.9 FM, Boston, MA, from the campus of Emerson College.
  
  
• A correspondent in nearby New Haven, Connecticut, writes, "for 50 years the Greater New Haven area has been blessed to be able to listen to and enjoy Beryl Howard's American Jewish Variety Hour. It is broadcast every Sunday morning, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., on WADS-690 on the AM dial. I write as a listener, not as part of the show."
  Update from our correspondent (6/19/01): after some 54 years his show is off the air because the small AM station WADS, Radio Amor, that he was on is in financial difficulty.
  Update from our correspondent (6/19/06): It is with great sadness that I report to you that Beryl Howard passed away early this year. Unfortunately I have no other details as to exact date etc.
  
  
• Sunday Morning Klezmer & Other Jewish Music, an exploration of Jewish Music, Art & Culture is hosted by Jacob Freedman, and plays Israeli, Jewish, Klezmer and Yiddish Music, and includes interviews with various Jewish Performers and Public Figures. The show airs every Sunday, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on WBZC 88.9 FM Pemberton, NJ. And may be heard in parts of the following New Jersey Counties; Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Ocean, and Salem; as well as, some parts of Eastern Pennsylvania; including Philadelphia.
  
  
• Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive - includes the archive of Eddie Gilman (Boston's Di Yidishe Shtunde)
  
  
• See also the following Jewish radio guides:
  • Ari Davidow's List of Klezmer and Yiddish Radio Shows
  • The Jewish Music Web Center's JMWC Radio or TV Guide
  
  
  
• Calling All Yiddish Radio Shows! Send radio@yv.org your broadcast information. We'll post it here.

Special-Interest Yiddish Voice Sites

• Lekoved Pesyakh: Elements of the Yiddish Peysakh Hagode, including Di Fir Kashes (The Four Questions in Yiddish).
• In memory of Ben Gailing Z"L 1898 - 1999

Yiddish Links

• Sheva Zucker's Yiddish educational materials and programs, resources for Yiddish learners and teachers from veteran Yiddish language and literature expert, author and teacher Dr. Sheva Zucker.
  Notable subsites:
  • Sheva Zucker's blog Parshe Poetry
  • Sheva Zucker's blog Candles of Song
  
  
• Yugntruf's Kinder Loshn Publications publishes children's books in Yiddish
  
• Allen Lutins's KlezmerGuide, a "comprehensive cross-reference of klezmer tune titles, recordings & sheet music sources".


• Karen Goodman's Yiddish Dances on Film, "devoted to remembering, teaching, and continuing Yiddish Dance, the folk dance of Yiddish-speaking Jews".


• English-Yiddish Dictionary/English-Yidish Verterbukh, website and online version of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, a project of the League for Yiddish, published by Indiana University Press.


• Max Kohn's Yiddish Interviews. Max is a psychologist in Paris who supplied numerous Yiddish interviews to Yiddish radio shows, including SBS in Australia


• Committee for Yiddish, Toronto-based organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating Yiddish language and culture.


• Toronto Workmen's Circle - Arbeiter Ring, promoting Jewish culture, Yiddish language and social justice.


• The Yiddish Vinkl - Toronto, meets and puts on Yiddish events in Toronto.


• Yiddish Culture — Yiddish Heritage, website devoted to Yiddish language and culture (launched April, 2023). Much of the content is in four languages: English, Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew. Presented by the project Preservation of Yiddish Culture ייִדיש-ירושה and run by Mark Zilberquit, Julia Zilberquit, Velvl Chernin, and Yoel Matveyev.


• Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection (יאָסל און חנה מלאָטעק אַנטאָלאָגיע פֿון ייִדישע לידער), an online version of the five books of Yiddish songs by the late Yosl and Chana Mlotek. Presented by the Workers Circle, launched in March 2023, the collection presents Yiddish songs as plain Yiddish text, in transliteration, and in translation. The original songsheet pages, including musical notation, are also available for download as a PDF by supplying your name and email.


• Iberzets איבערזעץ, a Hebrew-language site presenting Hebrew translations of Yiddish literature, mostly with side-by-side translations, created by Tel Aviv University students of Yiddish literature.


• New Yiddish Rep, in New York, presents Yiddish theater in English, Yiddish, and multilingual formats as well as acting classes. The web site also features numerous video samples of and related to their work.


• ייִדיש בראַנזשע / Yiddish Branzhe, an all-Yiddish web magazine by Boris Sandler (wiki), Yiddish author and journalist, former editor of the Yiddish Forverts.


• Noah (Reb Noyekh) Barrera's Yiddish with Reb Noyekh, an online Yiddish learning website.


• Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh's YAANA, the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, offering both local (San Diego County community) and online classes and other events.


• Dovid Katz's Yiddish Cultural Dictionary, an English-Yiddish lexicon being continuous built and improved online, edited and curated by internationally renowned Yiddish expert Dovid Katz.


• National Authority for Yiddish Culture, organization officially supported and funded by the Government of Israel to support and nurture Yiddish language and culture, according to a law that was passed in the 1990's.
  
  
• Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (Facebook), a research consortium dedicated to the application of digital humanities tools and methods to the study of Yiddish theatre and drama. Founded in 2012. In October 2017, they published online volume 7 of Zalmen Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater (Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre), derived from previously unpublished galleys.
  
  
• The Official Sholem Aleichem Website, launched to mark the 100th yortsayt of the most famous of Yiddish writers Sholem Aleichem, led by Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeremy Dauber, a collaboration among many institutions, aims to be THE comprehensive website dedicated to Sholem Aleichem.
  
  
• Kave Shtibl, Yiddish-language discussion boards (primarily Haredi)
  
  
• Yidishe Velt Forums - discussion forums in Yiddish (primarily Haredi)
  
  
• In Geveb, a journal of Yiddish studies: In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
  
  
• YidLife Crisis, a new 'webisode' series, in Yiddish (with English subtitles), that is by, from, and about Montreal Jews.
  
  
• Yiddish Summer Weimar
  
  
• Isaac Bleaman's Der Leyenzal (Yiddish for "the reading room") features streaming video lectures about Yiddish literature.
  
  
• YiddishFarKinder.com Yiddish for Children, educational material for children to learn Yiddish, by Yiddish teacher Judith Nysenholc (Yudis Nisnholts).
  
  
• YiddishPOP, featuring interactive Yiddish educational material, primarily geared towards children and young adults, in a lively, interactive, audio-visual format. Based on BrainPOP ESL, the work and creation of the late Naomi Prawer Kadar, Ph.D. (1949-2010) and her team.
  
  
• Jane Peppler's Yiddish Emporium, Yiddish books, translations, CDs, and songbooks
  
  
• Steven Lasky's Museum of Family History (a virtual museum) is very extensive and has a Yiddish component. Notable subsites include Zylbercweig's 'Yiddish Radio Hour' Archive and Zylbercweig's 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre' English translation.
  
  
• Di Zeitung, Chareidi Yiddish newspaper based in Brooklyn. (Online PDF copies of the current issue are generally available for download from their home page.)
  
  
• Yiddish Paris, web log of Paris's Medem Library Yiddish Center.
  
  
• Yiddish-English Dictionary/Yidish-English Verterbukh, home page of a Yiddish-English version of the Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais, published by the Bibliotheque Medem in Paris, widely regarded as the most complete Yiddish dictionary currently available.
  
  
• Batya Fonda's Jewish Folk Songs (jewishfolksongs.com), Jewish Songs of the Diaspora, with her lectures, in Hebrew and English, about folklsongs primarily in Yiddish and Ladino, supplemented with audio-video and reference material.
  
  
• Haynt - the historic Yiddish newspaper from prewar Warsaw, Poland - is now online!
  
  
• Johanna Kovitz's YiddishWit.com, a collection of Yiddish folk sayings, presented in Yiddish (Hebrew) letters, transliteration, and English translation, along with entertaining illustrations and additional helpful explanatory text in English.
  
  
• Yiddish Song of the Week, presented by the the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project, edited by Itzik Gottesman, featuring Yiddish songs, their translation into English, and commentary by an expert, and emphasizing field recordings of traditional Yiddish folk singers from around the world.
  
  
• Yiddish Poetry Website: yiddishpoetry.org



• Di Yidishe Velt - Khareydish-oriented Yiddish-language website with news, blogs, and forums.
  
  
• Yiddish Lives - Life Story Videos in Yiddish - Biography and Language Preservation
  
  
• Archive of the Yiddish literary journal Kheshbn, which was published by the LA Yiddish Culture Club from 1946 to 2008.
  
  
• Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library - online with more than 10,000 titles from the digitized Yiddish book collection of the Yiddish Book Center, through the Internet Archive (archive.org).
  
  
• Yiddishland - a Google Groups Yiddish-language discussion group, primarily comprising posts by and for typically young and hip Yiddish speakers in the New York City area. Leyzer Birko, evidently the moderator, seems to be keeping the discussion lively and relevant.
  
  
• Index to Yiddish Periodicals was originated by the Yiddish Department of the Hebrew Univerity of Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Jewish National and University Library, comprises approximately 287,000 bibliographic records about the Eastern European Yiddish Press from 1862 to 2010.
  
  
• Lebns Fragn, website of the publication of the Arbeter-Ring in Israel, with a Jewish Labor Bund perspective on politics, society, and culture.
  
  
• The Yiddish Wikipedia, YI.Wikipedia.Org, has thousands of articles in Yiddish!
  
  
• Yung Yidish, founded by Mendy Cahan, home page of Israel's young, energetic, and growing Yiddish cultural organization.
  
  
• Gerben Zaagsma's Yiddish Sources
  
  
• YIVO's EPYC: Educational Program on Yiddish Culture
  
  
• Zukht Zhe! You can now do a Google search in Yiddish!
  
  
• Saving Jewish recordings:
  • Save The Music, an organization established to collect and preserve Jewish music recordings, digitize them, and make them available on the Internet.
  • The Judaic Collection of the Recorded Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries (JSA) is actively collecting Judaica phonograph recordings. Located in Boca Raton, its mission is to preserve and digitize Judaica music and voice recordings, especially from the 20th century, and to promote awareness and appreciation of this cultural legacy. Their collection includes many vintage 78-RPM recordings showcasing Yiddish culture, including Klezmer instrumentals, Yiddish music and comedy of various sorts, and Cantorial performances in Ashkenazic Nusach.
  • Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, by Lewis Glinert, Cultural Director, and Alex Hartov, Technical Director, giving scholars and researchers access to many thousands of recordings of Yiddish, Klezmer, and Ashkenazi Cantorial music
  
  
• Rafael Goldwaser's Lufteater ("Theater of the Air", "Le Theatre en L'Air") performs Yiddish theater works in Strasberg, France.
  
  
• Yiddishkayt LA is a cultural organization that promotes Yiddish language and culture in Southern California.
  
  
• The Jewish Language Project website is edited by Sarah Bunin Benor and promotes research and education on Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian (Italkian), Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese (Shuadit) / Judeo-Provencal, Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo / Ladino), and of course Yiddish.
  
  
• Some Yiddish Blogs:
  • Sholem Berger ("Loshn, Divurim, Reyd, un Ploperay")
  • Katle Kanye ("Klerenishn ... fun a ... khosid")
  • The Chocolate Lady ("In Moyl Arayn")
  • Dov Ber Kerler ("Boris Karloff")'s Blog: Elabrek ("Naye un Alte Lider") - note: this more a rich archive of Yiddish poetry than a blog
  
  
  
• YIVO's Zumerprogram, the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, established in 1968, is the oldest intensive Yiddish summer program in the world.
  
  
• Helen Winkler's Yiddish Dance Page has news, info, and links galore related to Eastern European/Ashkenazik dance.
  
  
• The Rock Theater web site (mostly in German, some Yiddish) in Dresden, Germany, gives information about this theater collective's performances of Yiddish music and theater and about some Yiddish songbooks and CDs they've published.
  
  
• Thanks to David Starner, who scanned in Harkavy's Yiddish-English (6th edition), English-Yiddish (11th edition) Dictionary (1910), and to Raphael Finkel, who tweaked the images and put them online, you can now see images from this dictionary at: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html
  
  
• KlezCalifornia - "a celebration of klezmer music, dance, Yiddish, Jewish culture, and visual arts"
  
  
• Article about Yiddish in Czernovitz by JTA (Jan. 27, 2003):

  Boris Slobodyansky is among a group of pensioners that put out a Yiddish broadcast, Dos Yiddishe Wort, or the Yiddish Word, on the airwaves of a Ukrainian state company. ``We have the only Yiddish radio in the world," he says, unaware of several Yiddish radio shows in other countries.

  
  
  
• Yiddish Studies at Harvard
  
  
• The Fishstein Yiddish Poetry Catalogue at McGill University (browsable catalogue, accompanying essays, etc.)
  
  
• The Dr. Izraelis Lempertas and the Jewish Community of Lithuania present Vilnius - Jerusalem of Lithuania, about Vilna (now Vilnius), the pre-WWII center of Yiddish culture. (This is part of a larger Jews in Lithuania site, in English and Lithuanian.
  
  
• The main address for Yiddish in Boston is Boston's Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring, and now they have a snazzy new web site: circleboston.org
  
  
• The California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture (CIYCL) produces Yiddish events in the Los Angeles area. Led by Miri Koral, CEO and Founding Director.
  
  
• The The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is the oldest standing professional Yiddish theatre in the United States. Their web site gives ticket and performance information as well as information about the artists, plays, and history that make up this important institution.
  
  
• The German-language site Virtual Klezmer features information about Klezmer/Yiddish music all over, but especially the German scene, providing news, links, downloads, discussion groups, etc.
  
  
• Yiddishpiel, the Yiddish Theater of Israel.
  
  
• The European Union and Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language and Culture (Duesseldorf) present a Yiddish Language Course featuring authentic Yiddish dialect recordings from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazik Jewry. The highly interactive multimedia site features instructional materials in German, Yiddish text in Alef-Beyz (Hebrew script), and vistors are encouraged to ask questions in English, Yiddish, or German. Site created by Dr. Ulrike Kiefer and Robert Neumann.
  
  
• International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam has a Guide to the Yiddish Collection of the Institute, including a searchable Catalog of the Jewish Labor Bund Archives.
  
  
• The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture presents Yiddishculture.org, with great Yiddish cultural content, notably information about center's publishing and related activities, and its namesake, the late Yiddish poet Dora Teitelboim.
  
  
• Australia's Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library Kadimah, the major Yiddishist organization in Australia.
  
  
• Leonard Prager's The World of Yiddish, which is the home of
  • Khulyot, A Journal of Yiddish Research, edited by Prager, and other excellent Yiddish literary content and reference material; and
  • New! (Oct. '05) The Yehoyesh Project: Tanakh - The Bible in Yiddish - has been completed!
  • Stories in Yiddish read by Sara Blacher-Retter
  • ... and much more!
  
  
  
• Steven Weiss's Necrology of European Yiddish Theatre Actors who were victims of the Holocaust, translated/adapted/edited from by Zalmen Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishen Teater: Kedoshim Band (Volume 5) -- UPDATE: Related: Steven Lasky's Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre, his nearly complete, and steadily growing, collection of translations of the biographies in aforementioned Leksikon.
  
  
• YIVO Institute, the great scholarly institute which specializes in the study of Eastern European Jewry and carries out much of its publishing in the Yiddish language.
  
  
• On this web page, and in most modern publications specializing in Yiddish, we use the YIVO system of transliterating Yiddish. (Here's a Guide to Yiddish Transliteration from Shtetl.)
  
  
• MSN's Encarta Encyclopedia has entries for Yiddish Language and for Yiddish Literature
  
  
• Visit Kol Avrohom's site to hear Daf HaYomi in Yiddish by HaRav Avrohom Karp zts"l, featuring Real Audio of daf-yomi in Yiddish.
  
  
• Visit The Daily Sicho (http://www.sichos.com/), featuring text and audio files of the daily Yiddish sichos of the Lubavitscher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson zts"l.
  
  
• The huge HaGalil Online web site (mostly in German) has a JIDDISCH - YIDDISH - JIDISH - YIDISH page with lots of resources, information, and links.
  
  
• Shura Vaisman and others have created a website in honor of the 90th anniversary of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference on the Yiddish Language, with many interesting articles about the conference, documents from the conference, and many images of historical persons, places, and things.
  
  
• Not quite a Yiddish dictionary, but Michael D. Fein's got a pretty good glossary, or what he calls a List of Yiddish Words and Expressions.
  
  
• Der Forverts (in Yiddish) iz afn Internet! (The Yiddish Forward is on the Internet!)
  
  
• From France, it's www.YiddishWeb.com.... cliquez pour continuer! (Note: seems to overlap with the Medem Library homepage cited below.)
  
  
• From the UK, it's Klezmer On-Line.
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania's Yiddish at PENN web site!
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Jewish-Music mailing list archive and subscription form
  
  
• Joel Rubin/Rita Ottens Jewish Cultural Programming and Research web site, displaying an impressive list of Yiddish/Klezmer concert, CD, and radio productions
  
  
• Detlav Mueller's German Klezmer Page, initiated by the Klezmer Gesellschaft e.V. (in German and English)
  
  
• The Yiddish Book Center, founded by MacArthur Fellow Aaron Lansky and headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts, has collected over 1.4 million Yiddish books. Publisher of Der Pakntreger (The Book Peddler), a fine magazine about Yiddish language, culture, and literature.
  
  
• "The family of SHOLOM ALEICHEM, in conjunction with The Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation, has created a web site dedicated to his life and work", said the e-mail announcement we received today (March 11, 1998) from Robert V. Waife <robert@sholom-aleichem.org>.
  
  
• Jack (Yankl) Halpern's Yiddish Page web site features the home pages of the Japan Yiddish Club.
  
  
• There's a Yiddish web site in Holland run by the "Singing Group Striid" (also available in Dutch).
  
  
• The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal, Canada, has a web site, with some history, photographs, and information, including information about upcoming performances.
  
  
• The private collection of Bob Freedman and his wife Molly has become the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish Music at the University of Pennsylvania Library, with a Yiddish Song Database search interface.
  
  
• Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring, dedicated to Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice.
  
  
• Sholem Berger's Internet Yiddish Literary Journal Der Bavebter Yid
  
  
• Film Producer David Notowitz's film Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years, narrated by Leonard Nemoy, directed by Yale Strom, lets Zev Godinger tell his story in Yiddish (with English subtitles).
  
  
• Raphael Finkel's Yidishe Shraybmashinke (Yiddish Typewriter) lets you compose a page of Yiddish text from your web browser. Also converts between a growing list of Yiddish computer file formats. ... And now (2008) there's also the Yidishe Shrayberke, a web-based Yiddish input method editor (IME).
  
  
• Yiddish Text on computers, and even on the Web: The UYIP Home Page has information about, and resources to facilitate, Understanding Yiddish Information Processing (UYIP), an Internet mailing list.
  
  
• France's Medem Bibliotek Homepage "La plus grande bibliotheque yiddish d'Europe" (Europe's Greatest Yiddish Library)
  
  
• League for Yiddish - YIDISH-LIGE (Facebook) - founded by Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z"l) in 1979 to support the modernization, standardization, and use of Yiddish. Publisher of Afn Shvel
  
  
• Home page for Yugntruf, a worldwide organization of Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-learning young adults.
  
  
• Paris's Online Yiddish Newspaper for Yiddish learners Der Yidisher Tamtam has been published since 1995, and has been online (downloadable) since 1997 -- the World's first online Yiddish newspaper.
  
  
• Noyekh Miller's Mendele: Yiddish Language and Literature (Info about the Mailing List)
  
  
• Iosif Vaisman's Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture Home Page
  
  
• Refoyl Finkel's Yiddish Poetry in Hebrew Letters (GIF Images)
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Klezmer Shack, with reviews, news, a much more, all about the world of Klezmer music.
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Virtual Ashkenaz, a discussion forum about new Yiddish culture.
  
  
• Marc Zissman's Wolf Lewkowicz Collection (Extraordinary Yiddish Letters, and More)

• Algemeiner Journal, Inc., 508 Montgomery Street, Brookline, NY 11225 USA; Tel. (718) 771-0400; Associated website: www.algemeiner.com; Publisher of Algemeiner Journal (Der Algemeyner Zhurnal)
  
  
• CYCO Publishing House and Book Distribution Agency, 25 East 21st Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010 USA; Tel. (212) 505-8305. CYCO is a bookstore devoted exclusively to the Yiddish word and publishes belles-lettres in Yiddish. It is united with the Congress for Jewish Culture (see below). (Note: name is pronounced "TSI-ko".)
  
  
• Congress for Jewish Culture, 25 East 21st Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10010 USA; Tel (212) 505-8040; Publisher of The Future (Di Tsukunft) and Yiddish reference and history books, conducts a full year of programming in Yiddish.
  
  
• Der Bay, 1128 Tanglewood Way, San Mateo, CA 94403; Publisher of Der Bay (pronounced both as "derbay" and "der bey"), whose tag line is "The Golden Gate to the World-Wide Yiddish Community"; E-mail to the editor, Philip "Fishl" Kutner <fishl@derbay.org>; Tel. (650) 349-6946
  
  
• The Forward Association, 45 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel. (212) 889-8200; Publisher of the Yiddish, Russian, and English Forward (Yiddish: Forverts)
  
  
• Yidish-Lige (League for Yiddish, Inc.), 64 Fulton St. Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038 USA; Tel. 212-889-0380; Email: info@leagueforyiddish.org; Publisher of Afn Shvel; (note: new street address as of Spring 2008)
  
  
• Labor Zionist Letters, 275 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10001-6708 USA; Tel. (212) 675-7807; Publisher of Yidisher Kemfer
  
  
• Lebns Fragn, 48 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv, Israel 65165; Tel. 03-5176764; Socialist Monthly / "sotsialistishe khoydesh-shrift far politik, virtshaft, un kultur"
  
  
• Yiddish Book Center, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, 1021 West St., Amherst, MA 01002-3375 USA; Tel. (toll-free book orders) (888) 4-BIKHER; Tel. (general) (800) 535-3595; Fax (413) 256-4700; Book orders and inquiries by email: bikher@bikher.org; Publisher of The Pakntreger (email: pt@bikher.org)
  
  
• Workers Circle, 45 E. 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel: 212-889-6800; Outside Metro NYC: 800-922-2558
  
  
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 USA; Tel. (212) 246-6080; Fax (212) 292-1892; Publisher of YIVO-bleter
  
  
• Yugntruf (note: new address as of 2008:) (Youth for Yiddish), 419 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10003 USA; Tel. 212-889-0381; Email: yugntruf@gmail.com; Publisher of Yugntruf Journal; (note: new street address and email address as of Spring 2008)
  

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• American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston
  
  
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• Boston Workers Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02445; (617) 566-6281; info@circleboston.org; www.circleboston.org
  
  
• BBJCF of CJP (Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)
  
  
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