Online Resource Center

  YIDDISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES  

Arele: Online Yiddish workbooks and other resources.
http://www.arele.yiddish.com.mx/books.html

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

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

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.
http://www.judaicvilnius.com/

Mendele: A newsgroup for scholarly discussion of Yiddish language and literature.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele

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/cijs/yidd/

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

The Library at the Jewish Theological Seminary: Course offerings in Yiddish language, literature, folklore, and music. View their exhibit "Cartoons in the Yiddish Press" at www.jtsa.edu/library/exhib/cartoons

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

  GENEALOGY AND HISTORY  

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

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

  YIDDISH COMMUNITY  

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

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. http://www.derbay.org/iayc.html

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

YiddishKayt LA: News of Jewish happenings in Los Angeles. http://www.derbay.org/iayc.html

Shtetl: Yiddish language and culture, featuring numerous international links, including to synagogues worldwide.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/Yiddish/shtetl.html

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

  FILM  

The National Center for Jewish Film: Where to find Yiddish films; the latest in Jewish cinema.
http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/yiddish.html

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.
http://www.jhvc.org

  FOOD  

A maykhl farn baykhl - Share recipes with Jewish cooks around the world.
http://www.jewish-food.org

  MUSIC  

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.
http://www.fau.edu/jewishmusic/

Yiddish-American Digital Archive: Real Audio files of vintage Yiddish recordings.
http://www.yiddishsong.org

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

  THEATER  

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

  IN WESTERN MASS  

Our newest neighbor, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, opened to the public November 22, 2002.
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

  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  

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