Yiddish Studies

The National Yiddish Book Center offers online access to about 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. The books were scanned under the auspices of the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, and are made available online through the Internet Archive.

Good collection of digitized Yiddish books.

The collection presents a selection of most outstanding representatives of Yiddish literature written in Poland before World War II: poets, novelists, playwrights and pioneers in writing in that language, such as Salomon Ettinger, Mendele Mojcher Sforim, and those who came later, Abraham Goldfaden, Icchok Lejb Perec, and others.

Ca. 800 titles, covering printing from 1560 to the beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains the whole spectrum of Yiddish texts, including a large number of women's bibles (Tse'na Re'ena), liturgy, medical guide books, science and education, works on religious customs (Minhagim), legends, historical chronicles and translations of well known tales like "A Thousand and one Nights".

"The children's books represented in this collection include original stories by Yiddish authors that include Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Pat, and Sholem Asch, as well as Yiddish translations of non-Jewish children's stories by such authors as Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Grimm."

Index to Yiddish Periodicals provides citations to articles published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe (Czarist Russia, Soviet Russia, Ukraine, interwar Poland, Romania before World War II, and the United States.
Coverage: approximately 800 publications. Search interface: in Yiddish. Citations: in Yiddish.

"The previously unpublished galleys of Volume 7 of Zalmen Zylbercweig’s Leksikon fun yidishn teater...."

"Placards from the two leading centers of Yiddish theater in their respective heydays: New York, 1890s-1910s (64 images), and Buenos Aires, 1930s-1940s (28 images)"

"The Yiddish theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City, and other urban centers, during the early twentieth century. The 77 unpublished manuscripts presented here include light comedies and dramas, and have been selected from the more than 1,290 copyright-deposit plays known as the Marwick Collection and housed in the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division."