Yiddish Overview

Yiddish (means "Jewish") is a Germanic language written with the Hebrew alphabet. It originated about the 10th century in central and eastern Europe. It spread to other continents via emigration. It is related to Middle High German. The term Yiddish became common in the 18th century.  It became the dominant spoken language of eastern European Jews for much of its history. Eastern Yiddish differed from Western Yiddish in the extensive inclusion of Slavic words.

Prior to World War II, it is estimated that there were 12 million Yiddish speakers. This number dropped dramatically after the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust. Assimilation took a further toll following the war. .

The number of Yiddish speakers today vary dramatically. The estimate runs from 500,000 to two million.  One third of these live in the United States.

Yiddish devotees fight to save language - linked by a common passion for an ancient Jewish language that threatens to slip into obscurity.

Jewish Sound Archives of Florida Atlantic University - The Judaica Sound Archives is a major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings.  You can listen to over 3,000 Hebrew and Yiddish songs via streaming audio.  A fantastic world-class resource which we urge you to support with a donation.

haGalil   - Large website providing information on Jewish life and faith in Europe, especially Germany and eastern Europe. Features forum and chat, yiddish and political content.

Avivale's Yiddish Page - Aviva Starkman's Yiddish Page: Yiddish humor, stories, and links to other Yiddish sites around the world.

Yiddishkeit - Dictionary of Yiddish Words and Expressions

My Grandmother's Yiddish - The site attempts to give a structural description of Yiddish

Der Bay - Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter - International Anglo-Yiddish newsletter/website with international "kalendar", with news of klezmer bands, Yiddish teachers, yiddish clubs, translators, and more.

Yiddish Web - Yiddish generally, but especially about Yiddish cultural events in and around Paris and the Medem Jewish Library. In French and Yiddish (either in transliteration, in GIF images, or as PDF's).

Forverts -- The Yiddish Forward - Information about, and excerpts from, the Yiddish Forward (Der Forverts), which is the oldest and most famous Yiddish newspaper, now published weekly. Mostly in Yiddish, presented in Hebrew letters as images.

The Yiddish Voice - Home page for The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol), a weekly Yiddish-language radio show in Brookline, Mass., with information on the radio show, and Yiddish links, resources, and multimedia content.

Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture Home Page - Large site devoted to Yiddish language and culture. Many interesting articles and exhibits.

Yiddish Transliteration - Yiddish Transliteration a.k.a. Romanization as standardized by the YIVO Institute. Also useful as a guide to the Hebrew-alphabet-based writing system traditionally used for Yiddish. (From Shtetl.)

Refoyls Veb Bletl (Yiddish Poetry Pages) - A collection of links to pages with Yiddish poetry text in image format (so it can be read on Hebrew-challenged browsers), as well as a collection of Yiddish-interest links.

Mendele: Yiddish Language and Literature - Oldest Yiddish mailing list. Also, ontains archivesof The Mendele Review, a literary magazine, plus a large and growing collection of Yiddish stories, poetry and belles-lettres in Yiddish.

Yugntruf - Youth For Yiddish - An organization devoted to the survival of Yiddish as a living language and culture. Activities conducted entirely in Yiddish. Publishers a Yugntruf, a Yiddish-language journal that comes out three times a year.

The Yiddish Typewriter / Di Yidishe Shraybmashinke - Lets you compose a page of Yiddish text from your web browser. Also converts between a growing list of Yiddish computer file formats and character encodings.

The Yiddish Homepage

Living Traditions - Home page for an organization that's involved with Yiddish language and culture, especially through their Yiddish-language recordings and through KlezKamp, an annual Yiddish folk arts festival which they produce.

Yiddishculture.org - The Dora Teitelboim Center - The foundation publishes Yiddish literature in translated and bilingual editions, and offers Yiddish-related features at its web site, including an online Yiddish course. Includes selections of Teitelboim's poetry in Yiddish and in English translation.

Second Avenue Online Home Page - 2nd Avenue Online - Yiddish Theater Digital Archives Project, produced by NYU's Center for Advanced Technology; Yiddish actor and singer Seymour Rexite, and other Yiddish theater veterans, consulted on this web site's creation.

Khulyot: Di Velt fun Yidish - Israeli Yiddish literary journal on the web, "Khulyot"/"Di Velt Fun Yidish"

Yiddish Virtual Library (Duesseldorf, Germany) - Introduction to Yiddish in the German language from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Information about Yiddish language, culture, and current events. Many links to sites in various languages.

Der Yidisher TamTam - From Paris, a Yiddish newspaper geared toward students of Yiddish, downloadable in PDF format.

Benny Swartzberg's Yiddish Postcard Collection - A collection of Yiddish postcards from approximately 1905-1918.

Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre - Home page for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre -- the oldest and the only remaining professional Yiddish theatre in the United States. Information about past and upcoming performances, links for ticket purchases, and information about the organization.

UYIP: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing - Home page for the UYIP mailing list, with information on Yiddish-language issues facing computer users.

Yiddish Book: On Foreign Soil - The autobiography of a Jew who grew up in Russia at the turn of the last century. Starts in English and gradually turns back into Yiddish. Complete English version is available on-line.

National Yiddish Book Center - Home page for the organization that has preserved over one million Yiddish books. Information on programs, exhibits, and facilities and online highlights of the Pakn Treger magazine.

Klezmer Online UK - Information about Klezmer/Yiddish music especially in the UK

Wolf Lewkowicz Collection - Extraordinary Yiddish letters, and more.

Virtual Ashkenaz - A discussion forum about new Yiddish culture, hosted by Ari Davidow.

Khavershaft - Information on Yiddish-oriented organizations in Melbourne Australia by the J.Waks Cultural Centre Inc.

Zemerl - The Yiddish Song Database - Zemerl is a database of Jewish songs, including lyrics, information, sound clips, and links.

"Die Jiddischen Seiten" of Hagalil - Yiddish section of the very large Hagalil site for Judaism in Central Europe, mostly in the German language.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - Home page of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry and Yiddish

Rose Leis: 1887 - 1980 - Her Life Story - The Autobiography of Rose Leis, of Slutsk, Minsk, and New York, in Yiddish via images scanned from her unpublished manuscript.

Sholom Aleichem Home Page - The Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem's life and work presented by members of his family in conjunction with The Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation.

Sheva Zucker's Yiddish - Information about the text book "Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture" and its accompanying audio-cassette series by the author herself.

Hatikvah Music - Music retailer in Los Angeles that sells recorded music (CDs, tapes), large selection of Yiddish, Cantorial, Klezmer, and Sephardic music recordings (not all shown on the web page).

How To Talk Jewish - A humorous site that reaches into Jewish ethnicity with an alphabetical listing of popular Yiddish words and phrases along with insight into the history of the language

Yiddish far rayznde (English) - Travelang.com's "Yiddish for Travellers" multimedia dictionary -- or the beginnings of one, at least.

Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Home Page - The home page for the organization dedicated to Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid, and the pursuit of social and economic justice.

S. L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books - Showcasing the lives and work of the late great writer and journalist S. L. Shneiderman and his wife Eileen, and the writer's book collection that is now part of the University of Maryland Library.

Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond - The National Yiddish Book Center and KCRW 89.9FM/Santa Monica, CA, radio program and cassette series hosted by Leonard Nemoy with other famous actors as the readers. and full-length Real Audio recordings of most of the stories.

Daf Yomi In Yiddish - Daf HaYomi in Yiddish provides daily lessons in the Talmud and Gemorra in the Yiddish Language.

The Daily Sicho - Features a Real Audio recording of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Sichos in the Rebbe's voice in Yiddish for any day (excluding yom-tov and shabbos) of the current Jewish calendar month

Annual Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish - Monthlong summer program held in Lithuania, under the academic directorship of Professor Dovid Katz. Four university accredited courses and a full cultural program, including films, lectures, shtetl visits, exhibits, workshops and performances.

Zemerl - A database of Jewish songs (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino) including song lyrics, translations, information about the songs and other resources.

Yiddish and Unix - Manipulating Yiddish texts under the Unix operating system.

Monsey Homepage - Dedicated solely to the activities and interests of the Monsey's Jewish community. Includes kosher recipes, Mazel Tovs, and torah. Special for the Yiddish, Heimish, and Hebrew community. Also for Spring Valley and Suffern.

Krakow's Yiddish Page - Yiddish proverbs with Polish and English translations, and presentation of the book 'Yiddish and Polish Proverbs', by Magdalena Sitarz, Jagiellonian University.

Index of Yiddish Recipes - Various recipes in plain text format.

JewishPath: Cyberspace Learning - Jewish and Torah Learning, Weekly Parsha, Gematria, Hebrew Yiddish Glossary, Mysticism, Responses to other Religions, Divorce, Intermarriage Conflict, Self Improvement blended with stories and humor.

The Yiddish Voice Store - Yiddish, Klezmer, and reference/educational CDs and tapes, videos. Artist links and sound samples.

National Center for Jewish Film - Dedicated to preserving and sharing Jewish heritage. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. Distributes restored versions of rare Yiddish-language features.

The Brandeis University Libraries - Located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Over sixty specialized collections are grouped into four broad categories (Judaica, history, literature, and creative arts) and include significant holdings on Louis D. Brandeis, and Benjamin Disraeli, and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as collections of Albert Einstein's papers, and Yiddish Sheet Music, among others. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.

The Yiddish Voice Store - Order products including books, music, videos and software. Supports a Yiddish-language radio show.

Cracow's Yiddish Page - Yiddish proverbs with Polish and English translations, and presentation of the book "Yiddish and Polish Proverbs", by Magdalena Sitarz, Jagiellonian University.

Yiddish world musical show : Broadway meets klezmer - Yiddish world musical show of the year ? for all ages and tastes ? Klezmer meets Broadway in a show full of humour, jazz, rock, close harmony vocals and joy !

A Jewish Glossary / Dictionary with thousands of Hebrew, English, and Yiddish words - A glossary with thousands of Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish Words along with information, definitions and other details.

Hebrew Words in Dutch (via Yiddish) - Article by Marco Schuffelen.

Hatikvah Music - Retailer of Yiddish, Klezmer, Sephardic, Cantorial and Israeli music on cassette, compact disc and video.

UsedJudaica - Boro Park. Books, tapes, CDs in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew; rental library. Profile, services, contact information.

eGGsalad - Yiddish recipes for Hanukkah, with brief discussion of the holiday and traditional foods.

Ketzev - Ketzev is a coed Jewish a cappella group that features songs in a variety of languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, and English.

Forward - English edition of the venerable Yiddish socialist newspaper from New York.

Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry Translated by Karen Alkalay-Gut - Yehuda Amichai, Asher Reich, Yossl Birstein and many others.

KlezKanada - A Festival of Jewish/Yiddish Music and Culture. Highlights, workshops, schedule, and online registration form.

Rainbow Artists Guild - Princess and the Cowboy, aka Barbara and Abraham perform contemporary folk, country, pop, Jewish, Yiddish, Hebrew.

Narrishkeit Now - Collection of Jewish jokes from Congregation Beth Or in Spring House, PA. (Narrishkeit is Yiddish for foolishness)

Danaben Interpreting and Translating - Interpreting and translating in Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish. Specialties include courts and legal services.

Ketzev - Ketzev is a coed Jewish a cappella group at Johns Hopkins that features songs in a variety of languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, and English.

Judiaca Art Center - This gallery features a variety of Judaica, including arts and crafts, ritual items, Israeli and Yiddish posters, and jewelry.

Hoffman, Donald - Classically-trained actor and narrator available for commercial voiceovers. Fluent in English, German, French and Turkish languages; skilled in British, German, Yiddish, and Spanish accents.

Sound Portraits - Radio production company featuring David Isay's radio documentaries. Hear stories from America's ghettos, prisons, and old time Yiddish radio.

Mayn Zikhroynes: The memoirs of Yekheskel Kotik - Kotik's memoirs describe Jewish life in late Tsarist Russia. Originally published in Yiddish, this richly-annotated translation by Lucas Bruyn is available on-line in its entirety.

The Book of Bortschoff - List of Jewish holocaust victims in Borshchiv, translated from Jewsih Memorial Book on Borshchiv (Bortschoff in Yiddish).

Hahn, Lee - Singer/entertainer with a three-octave range and a repertoire which includes songs in English, Italian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Site includes sound files and reviews.

Golus Storytheatre (Toronto-Berlin) - Canadian stand-up comedian/writer Michael Wex and German musician/composer Heiko Lehmann founded Golus Storytheatre to develop and perform new original Yiddish theatre plays and music -- in English or German.

Hersch Segal and Paul Celan - The Late Hersch Segal on the influence of Yiddish and Jewishness on Celan based on notes for talks, translated, condensed, and commented on by Meinhard E. Mayer.

National Center for Jewish Film - Dedicated to preserving and sharing Jewish heritage. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. Distributes restored versions of rare Yiddish-language features.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts - Classical music, opera, ballet, modern dance, popular artists in concert, Yiddish theater, Caribbean concerts, cinema, children's programming. Profile, events, schedule, tickets, travel directions, contact information.

Ectaco Online dictionary - Ectaco, Inc. online dictionaries: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yiddish languages.

Karen Alkalay-Gut - Poetry by Karen Alkalay-Gut, translations from Hebrew (Yehuda Amichai, Asher Reich, Ronny Sommek, Raquel Chalfi, Yael Globerman, Abba Kovner), Yiddish (Itzik Manger,Bracha Kopstein, Yossl Birstein), Arabic (Naim Araidi, Nazi Khir, Nida Khouri) and articles about literature.

Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years - Film Producer David Notowitz's new film, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, follows a Jewish ice cream vendor in the Carpathian Mountain region of Ukraine, who returns home to see his birthplace and tells his story in Yiddish along the way (with English subtitles and narration).

Artists For Israel International Messianic Bible Society - Messianic Jewish ministry to Orthodox Jews to show Yahoshua (Yeshua) not as a gentile Messiah, but as a Jewish one. They publish "Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha" ("New Testament"), and are now working to translate it into Yiddish. Includes video, "The Rabbi from Tarsus."

Student Papers on American English - From the Dept. of Translation Studies, Univ. of Tampere, Finland. Topics: Differences Between American and British English; 'Black English' (AAVE, or 'Ebonics'); Yiddish and Ethnic-Jewish Influences; Historical and Loan Word Influence; Regional and Social Variation; Slang; General Topics.

Brandeis University Libraries - Located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Over sixty specialized collections are grouped into four broad categories (Judaica, history, literature, and creative arts) and include significant holdings on Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Disraeli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Yiddish Sheet Music, among others. Research affiliations: Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.

University of Maryland - Jewish Studies Program - An interdisciplinary program which encourages research and provides instruction about the rich history and culture of the Jewish People. A wide array of courses in Hebrew, Jewish History, Bible, Rabbinics, Jewish Philosophy, Yiddish, and Jewish literature. One of the largest undergraduate Jewish Studies programs in North America.

Buczacz Origins - Site dedicated to the Jewish heritage of Buchach, town in southern part of Ternopil oblast

Yiddish Blues - Klezmerband aus Dresden mit traditioneller und frei übersetzten jüdischen Musik aus Osteuropa und Amerika; kurzgefasste Geschichte der Klezmer-Musik und Fotogalerie von Spuren jüdischen Lebens in Galizien.

Au gourmet de l'orangerie - Cuisine alsacienne bourgeoise traditionnelle et spécialités Yiddish cocher style. Menus, réservation en ligne, webcam.

Musique Klezmer - La musique klezmer (musique juive d'Europe de l'Est), histoire, instruments, chants yiddish, discographie, partitions, Genève.

Kleyne Lider - Jewish folk songs from the Yiddish and Ladino/Sephardi heritage, performed by a group based in Stuttgart. With member profiles, release information, and links.

Shtetl, Yiddish Language and Culture - Includes a map of Kazimierz - Krakow's Jewish Quarter.

Shtetl: Kitchen - Collection of Yiddish family recipes for holiday dishes and daily fare.

Daf Yomi In Yiddish - Daf HaYomi in Yiddish provides daily lessons in the Talmud and Gemorra in the Yiddish Language.

Hatikvah Music - Specializing in Klezmer, Yiddish, Ladino, Sephardic, Cantorial, and Israeli music CDs and tapes, videos.

Tanja Solnik - Award-winning albums of traditional Jewish folk songs sung in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino by recording artist Tanja Solnik.

McGill University Libraries - Research collections include the 'Blackader-Lauterman Collection of Architecture and Art', several sections of Canadiana, several groups of works dealing with Napoleon, Black history the 'History of Ideas' and 'History of the Book' collections which include works by David Hume, Gregor Malantschuk Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many others. In addition, are extensive holdings in Canadian, English, French, German, and Yiddish literature, historic manuscripts, rare maps, prints, and works of social and political history. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.

Kempin, Daniel - Germany-based singer and guitarist playing Yiddish music along with violinist Dimitry Reznik. With biography, MP3s, program and workshop synopses, and reviews. Site in English and German.

Understanding Yiddish Information Processing - General information on information processing, character sets and links.

Klezmania - Australian klezmer and yiddish folk band. Upcoming gigs, recordings, news and reviews.

Sukke - German band that performs traditional and modern klezmer music and old and new Yiddish. [German/English]

Baltimore Tummelers Klezmer Band, The - Klezmer band plays klezmer, Yiddish theater, and Israeli music. CD available for sale.

Oy Klezmer - Performs the klezmer and yiddish music of Eastern Europe, including wedding music from Moldova.

Di Bostoner Klezmer - A group of four musicians in Massachusetts playing Klezmer, traditional Jewish, Hasidic music and Yiddish song. With brief member profiles, past show locations, and contact information.

Der Bay - Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter - International Anglo-Yiddish newsletter with international calendar of events, news of klezmer bands, Yiddish teachers, and Yiddish clubs and translators

Israel Gimel - Free Midi Library [The Israeli-Jewish-Yiddish-Hebrew-Folk-Cultural Music Midi Free Library] - This site is a free site to download jewish israeli folk klezmer midi files.

Benny Swartzberg's Yiddish Postcard Collection - A collection of Yiddish postcards from approximately 1905-1918.

Der Bay - Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter - International Anglo-Yiddish newsletter/website with international "kalendar", with news of klezmer bands, Yiddish teachers, yiddish clubs, translators, and more.

"Die Jiddischen Seiten" of Hagalil - Yiddish section of the very large Hagalil site for Judaism in Central Europe, mostly in the German language.

Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre - Home page for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre -- the oldest and the only remaining professional Yiddish theatre in the United States. Information about past and upcoming performances, links for ticket purchases, and information about the organization.

Forverts -- The Yiddish Forward - Information about, and excerpts from, the Yiddish Forward (Der Forverts), which is the oldest and most famous Yiddish newspaper, now published weekly. Mostly in Yiddish, presented in Hebrew letters as images.

Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond - The National Yiddish Book Center and KCRW 89.9FM/Santa Monica, CA, radio program and cassette series hosted by Leonard Nemoy with other famous actors as the readers. and full-length Real Audio recordings of most of the stories.

Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library - Australia's Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library Kadimah, the major Yiddishist organization in Australia.

Khavershaft - Information on Yiddish-oriented organizations in Melbourne Australia by the J.Waks Cultural Centre Inc.

Khulyot: Di Velt fun Yidish - Israeli Yiddish literary journal on the web, "Khulyot"/"Di Velt Fun Yidish"

Mendele: Yiddish Language and Literature - Oldest Yiddish mailing list. Also, ontains archivesof The Mendele Review, a literary magazine, plus a large and growing collection of Yiddish stories, poetry and belles-lettres in Yiddish.

Nachman Libeskind 90th Birthday Exhibition - Late-bloomer artist and ardent Yiddishist Nachman Libeskind's 90th Birthday Exhibition, an online exhibition of his paintings

National Yiddish Book Center - Home page for the organization that has preserved over one million Yiddish books. Information on programs, exhibits, and facilities and online highlights of the Pakn Treger magazine.

The Real Ron Gould. - Jewish Master Chef shares his expertise. Diagnoses and cures your kitchen problems. Great recipes and real instuctions. User friendly, tried and tested in both restaurant, home and shul.

Refoyls Veb Bletl (Yiddish Poetry Pages) - A collection of links to pages with Yiddish poetry text in image format (so it can be read on Hebrew-challenged browsers), as well as a collection of Yiddish-interest links.

Rose Leis: 1887 - 1980 - Her Life Story - The Autobiography of Rose Leis, of Slutsk, Minsk, and New York, in Yiddish via images scanned from her unpublished manuscript.

S. L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books - Showcasing the lives and work of the late great writer and journalist S. L. Shneiderman and his wife Eileen, and the writer's book collection that is now part of the University of Maryland Library.

Sholom Aleichem Home Page - The Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem's life and work presented by members of his family in conjunction with The Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation.

Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture Home Page - Large site devoted to Yiddish language and culture. Many interesting articles and exhibits.

Tsuguya Sasaki's Cyberia - Website about Hebrew and Jewish languages and linguistics.

UYIP: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing - Home page for the UYIP mailing list, with information on Yiddish-language issues facing computer users.

Virtual Ashkenaz - A discussion forum about new Yiddish culture, hosted by Ari Davidow.

Wolf Lewkowicz Collection - Extraordinary Yiddish letters, and more.

Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Home Page - The home page for the organization dedicated to Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid, and the pursuit of social and economic justice.

Yiddish Book: On Foreign Soil - The autobiography of a Jew who grew up in Russia at the turn of the last century. Starts in English and gradually turns back into Yiddish. Complete English version is available on-line.

Yiddish Event Guide - A useful list of Yiddish programs, organized as a public service Raphael Finkel, providing: Annual Events (recent ones as well as upcoming ones); continuing programs; and academic degree programs

Yiddish far rayznde (English) - Travelang.com's "Yiddish for Travellers" multimedia dictionary -- or the beginnings of one, at least.

The Yiddish Homepage

Yiddish Transliteration - Yiddish Transliteration a.k.a. Romanization as standardized by the YIVO Institute. Also useful as a guide to the Hebrew-alphabet-based writing system traditionally used for Yiddish. (From Shtetl.)

The Yiddish Typewriter / Di Yidishe Shraybmashinke - Lets you compose a page of Yiddish text from your web browser. Also converts between a growing list of Yiddish computer file formats and character encodings.

Yiddish Virtual Library (Duesseldorf, Germany) - Introduction to Yiddish in the German language from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Information about Yiddish language, culture, and current events. Many links to sites in various languages.

The Yiddish Voice - Home page for The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol), a weekly Yiddish-language radio show in Brookline, Mass., with information on the radio show, and Yiddish links, resources, and multimedia content.

Yiddish Web - Yiddish generally, but especially about Yiddish cultural events in and around Paris and the Medem Jewish Library. In French and Yiddish (either in transliteration, in GIF images, or as PDF's).

Yiddishculture.org - The Dora Teitelboim Center - The foundation publishes Yiddish literature in translated and bilingual editions, and offers Yiddish-related features at its web site, including an online Yiddish course. Includes selections of Teitelboim's poetry in Yiddish and in English translation.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - Home page of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry and Yiddish

Yugntruf - Youth For Yiddish - An organization devoted to the survival of Yiddish as a living language and culture. Activities conducted entirely in Yiddish. Publishers a Yugntruf, a Yiddish-language journal that comes out three times a year.

Zemerl - The Yiddish Song Database - Zemerl is a database of Jewish songs, including lyrics, information, sound clips, and links.

Klezmer

About the Klezmer Revival - From one of the greatest current klezmer authorities, an article about the Klezmer revival.

The German Klezmer Page - a site about klezmer from a german perspective.[English/German]

Klezmer Links from Seth Rogovoy - A compendium of articles, reviews, interviews, columns, and assorted other published and unpublished writings of local, regional and national interest by music and cultural critic/reporter Seth Rogovoy.

Klezmer Music - With a review of Rogovoy's book The Essential Klezmer, and information on members of the group Metropolitan Klezmer.

Klezmer Music - Geneva, Switzerland - Includes a complete guide of Klezmer music in general, the local scene, and also a presentation of Rojinkes mir Mandeln and Hotegezugt, bands directed by Michel Borzykowski.

Klezmer Ring - Webring for sites about klezmer and klezmer bands.

The Klezmer Shack - An online world of klezmer music, and a place for klezmorim and klezmer musicians to network.

Klezvendors - Ari Davidow's links to vendors and organizations of interest to klezmorim

Why Klezmer? - An article about Klezmer revival in general, and one band's experience in it.

Klezmer Bands

California Klezmer - This band is, essentially, the Bay Area Klezmer All Stars--and we're talking stars who go back to the very beginning of the klez revival.

Cayuga Klezmer Revival - Ithaca's favorite (and only) 6-piece instrumental folk/roots/electric/acoustic klezmer band.

Cincinnati Klezmer Project, The - A klezmer ensemble, founded by students at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, plus others who've joined us along the way.

Den Flygande Bokrullen - A klezmer group from Eskilstuna and Stockholm but with most members now living in Uppsala.

Di Bostoner Klezmer - A group of four musicians in Massachusetts playing Klezmer, traditional Jewish, Hasidic music and Yiddish song. With brief member profiles, past show locations, and contact information.

Ellis Island Old World Folk Band - Old world klezmer band based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ensemble Sub Masa - A klezmer, Transylvania, Eastern Europe hybrid quartet based in Seattle, WA, USA.

Generation Klez - A professional four-piece acoustic Klezmer band with clarinet, violin, guitar/mandolin and bass. Based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Hollywood Klezmer - An ensemble formerly known as The Brandeis-Bardin Klezmer Ensemble, that performs traditional klezmer with a fusion of Middle Eastern, Sephardic, jazz and classical sounds.

The Klez Dispensers - Princeton University Klezmer band. The site contains the group's sound clips, pictures, and booking information.

Klezamir - The band's site - some wonderful clips and information about the band.

Klezmania - Australian klezmer and yiddish folk band. Upcoming gigs, recordings, news and reviews.

Klezmer Conservatory Band - One of the oldest and most respected Klezmer bands around. Their web page contains information about the band's concerts, educational program, and CDs.

Klezmerica - Represents Jewish culture and folk music through the Jewish musical form known as klezmer. RealAudio samples of their klezmer CD, booking and ordering information. Based in Minnesota's Twin Cities area.

Klezmic noiZ - Klezmer music site from Belgium, Antwerp.

Klezmonauts, The - A mixed-marriage of musical styles by an Chicago-based project. With release information, press, and sound samples.

Klezmorim, The - Band that roared out of Berkeley, California in 1975 to jump-start the klezmer revival. Co-founder/saxophonist Lev Liberman tells all.

Krakowski, Wolf - A guitarist and blues-singer from Toronto, Canada, now residing in Northampton, Massachusetts, who is firmly anchored in Yiddish.

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band - Klezmer band from Chicago.

Mozaik - An eight piece improvisational band that blends the music of klezmer, carlebach, jazz, blugrass and trance in an original instrumental psychedelic way. Upcoming shows, biographies, sound bites and photos.

New Orleans Klezmer Allstars - Official homepage of the band.

Oy Klezmer - Performs the klezmer and yiddish music of Eastern Europe, including wedding music from Moldova.

Sukke - German band that performs traditional and modern klezmer music and old and new Yiddish. [German/English]

Tziganarama - Official site for the London-based trio playing klezmer and East European folk on fiddle, accordion and double bass. With background, release information, reviews, and gig dates.

Yale Klezmer Band, The - Yale's undergraduate-run klezmer band.

Yid Vicious - Klezmer ensemble in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Yiddishe Cup - Cleveland's concert and celebration klezmer band. With general information, reviews, release details with RealAudio samples, and performance schedule.

Klezmer Radio

Israel Gimel - Free Midi Library [The Israeli-Jewish-Yiddish-Hebrew-Folk-Cultural Music Midi Free Library] - This site is a free site to download jewish israeli folk klezmer midi files.

Klezmer Music Radio - Streaming MP3 with klezmer music.

Penguin Klezmer Radio - On-line radio playing klezmer.

Klezmer Resources

Arrangements of Klezmer Music - Several arrangements of Klezmer pieces, from the Cincinnati Klezmer project.

Der Bay - Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter - International Anglo-Yiddish newsletter with international calendar of events, news of klezmer bands, Yiddish teachers, and Yiddish clubs and translators

Yiddish Organizations

Yiddishkeit - Dictionary of Yiddish Words and Expressions

Yiddish Language

Der Yidisher TamTam - From Paris, a Yiddish newspaper geared toward students of Yiddish, downloadable in PDF format.

How To Talk Jewish - A humorous site that reaches into Jewish ethnicity with an alphabetical listing of popular Yiddish words and phrases along with insight into the history of the language

My Grandmother's Yiddish - The site attempts to give a structural description of Yiddish

Sheva Zucker's Yiddish - Information about the text book "Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture" and its accompanying audio-cassette series by the author herself.

Jewish Genealogy