Yiddish resources

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Work in progress. I've added at least one reference for almost all categories but will come back to add more. I'll also try and add a short description for each entry.

LEARNING MATERIAL

Courses

• The Alphabet/Alefbeys

• Assimil Yiddish, French base (2010), English base (2014)
• College Yiddish (1946) by Uriel Weinreich
• Colloquial Yiddish (2012) by Lily Kahn (audio files)
• Duolingo Yiddish
• In Eynem (2020) by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, Mikhl Yashinsky
• Yiddish (1994) by Sheva Zucker (2 vols.)

Grammar

• Grammar of the Yiddish Language (1987) by Dovid Katz

Dictionaries
Books

• Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
• Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary by Uriel Weinreich

Online Dictionaries

• http://yiddishdictionaryonline.com/
• https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/dictionary.cgi

LISTENING

Podcasts

• Yiddish24
• The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast
• Vaybertaytsh
• SBS (a weekly Yiddish program hosted in the Hebrew section)
• 3ZZZ (the 'Jewish' Sunday program is in Yiddish)
• Forverts Radio Program (discontinued in 2017)
• Naye Khvalyes (Polish Radio, 2008-2011)

YouTube Channels

• Dovid Katz
• Forverts
• Yiddish Book Center
• Yiddish mit Noyekh
• Yidlife Crisis (webseries, two seasons)

Cinema/TV series

• Yidl mitn fidl (1936)
• Der Dybbuk (1937)
• Mamele (1938)
• A Brivele der mamen (1939)
• Overture to Glory (1940)
• Menashe (2017)
• Shtisel (2013-2021), mostly in Hebrew but a fair bit of Yiddish too (especially in Season 2)

Visit The National Center for Jewish Film for more titles.

Audiobooks

• Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books (139 audiobooks)
• Readings by Sara Blacher-Retter (mp3+pdf)

Talks/Conferences

• Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library (recorded at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal, 1950s-1980s)

Oral history

• AHEYM: The Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories
• LYVA: Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (Dovid Katz)
• Interviews by Max Kohn
• Oral Histories (Yiddish Book Center)

READING

Books

• Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library (11000+ books digitized)
• Noah Cotsen Library of Yiddish Children's Literature
• Yizkor Books
• National Library of Israel
• https://hebrewbooks.org/ (mostly Hebrew and mostly religious but a lot of Yiddish too)

Journals

• Afn Shvel
• Der Veker
• Der Yiddisher Tamtam (past issues), written for students, with glosses for less common words

Newspapers

• Forverts
• Jewish Historical Press (National Library of Israel)

Forums

• http://www.ivelt.com/forum/index.php
• http://www.kaveshtiebel.com/

OTHERS

Organisations

• League for Yiddish
• Maison de la culture yiddish
• YIVO Institute for Yiddish Research
• Yugntruf

Yiddish Studies (in English)

• In Geveb
• Yiddish Book Center Recorded Programs
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe