Aspiring Yiddish speakers will be happy to learn that on-line classes are forming at all levels of Yiddish with live instruction by some of the best Yiddish teachers in the world. For more information, visit www.eYiddish.org.

For translations of Yiddish to/from most other languages, an amazing site: MamaTranslation.com.
Try MamaTranslation.com/english/yiddish for English <-> Yiddish translation.

For more Yiddish resources, texts, dictionary, spellchecker, song database, and more: www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html.

Stories by top-notch Yiddish writers, with downloadable texts in PDF format and recorded readings in "real" (native) Yiddish are available online at the following Israeli web-site: http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/Stories.html.

The reader is Sara Blacher-Retter, originally of Vilna, and she does an excellent job.

The material is ideal for advanced learners and fluent speakers trying to maintain their Yiddish, but is also very valuable for students closer to the beginning level to try catching a few words at a time and to get a feel for Yiddish pronunciation and intonation (which contemporary radio programs and songs, unfortunately, won't give you).

Home page for The Yiddish Voice, a Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston's Yiddish-speaking community, and a Yiddish Internet resource page.

Mendele has been a very useful and interesting forum in a wide variety of aspects of Yiddish language and literature. You might 'lurk' in the archives to see what has been asked, answered, argued.

An interactive website for yiddish language basics. It includes facts of the language, calligraphy an games.

Jewish WebSight provides Jews and non-Jew insight into the Jewish news and lifestyleof this 5,000 year old culture.

Desk Top Publishing, Dictionaries, Fonts, Reference, Spell Checking, System, Word Processing

Download a free Yiddish keyboard - Keyman.

The rubegoldbergeray chart includes several tools which are readily available to help with web page creation.

A convenient online reference to the character contents of the Unicode UTF-8 for Yiddish.

December 7-10, 2009

The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra campus (Givat Ram)

During the four day conference that will be open to the public, short lectures will be held (mainly in Hebrew as well as in Yiddish and English). More than 30 lectures will be presented in 12 sessions, each one devoted to a unique aspect of modern Yiddish studies and culture. Each 20 minute lecture will be followed by a question and answer period.

Literary and theatrical events include an evening dedicated to the performance of Yiddish monologues and dialogues written by some of the best modern Yiddish authors: Y.L. Perets, Haim Nachman Bialik, Yosef Tunkl (Der Tunkeler), Aaron Zeitlin and Mordechai Strigler. The original Yiddish texts will be accompanied by Hebrew translation. Another evening will be dedicated to contemporary Yiddish poetry: three generations of Yiddish poets will recite a selection of their Yiddish poems, including CIYCL Director Miri Koral.

A book fair of publishing houses that print Yiddish books, translations, and literature concerning East European Jewry will be open to the public.

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World-Class concerts nightly; hands-on workshops for instrumentalists, singers, dancers and visual artists; films and lectures on Jewish and Yiddish history, literature, language and culture.

This is a place for Yiddish teachers of all levels to share resources and support each other: materials, ideas, songs, questions, answers.

The alumni of the Oxford Institute's 2001 summer program encourage the study and perpetuation of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

A forum for students of the Yiddish language. A place to converse in and about Yiddish, founded in January 2001 by Leybl (Lee) Goldberg, Yiddish teacher at the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center (DCJCC) in Washington, DC.

A mailing list for people wishing to use and learn the Yiddish language.The aim of this mailing list is to provide Yiddish learners from all over the world with a forum where they can try out and improve their linguistic skills by interacting with one another or with other fluent Yiddish speakers over the Internet.

This discussion group, launched by the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, provides an opportunity to all members to upload their writings, discuss their ideas, alert members to events across the world, discuss published literature, art, music and education and generally shmooze about important issues concerning Jewish and Yiddish culture.

The new and improved version of the former egroup known as "Yiddland"

The purpose of this group/list is to help the promotion of klezmer and Jewish Music. It was created in order to ease the making of announcements and initiating discussions about the music.

Eyropeyishe Yidishe Geshikhte, Religion un Kultur is a mailing list for the discussion of Jewish religion, culture and history in Europe.

This group is devoted to the study of folklore and ethnology of Jews around the world. The group invites announcements of conferences, publications, and special events as well as discussions of issues relating to Jewish folklore and ethnology.

Jewish music events for women in the New York area.

KOL DODI, the Midrasha Community Chorale of MetroWest section of the Jewish Federation in New Jersey, is a 60 voice ensemble specializing in the full spectrum of music arising out of various Jewish traditions.

The Yiddish Music Hall is designed to serve and support all Yiddish Music enthusiasts, students and performers. A site dedicated to Yiddish Music lovers

An interactive database of Jewish song.- YIDDISH - HEBREW - LADINO

"The Komediant," the award winning documentary about Mike Burstyn's family, his mother Lillian Fux and their history in the Yiddish theatre.

Visit the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre to learn more about Yiddish Theatre.

Yiddishkayt Los Angeles is a nonprofit cultural organization that promotes Yiddish language and culture in Southern California. YiddishkaytLA supporters include spirited individuals in the community, as well as representatives from Jewish organizations who share our interest in promoting Yiddish culture: L.A. Yiddish Culture Club, Valley Yiddish Culture Club, Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, Society for Humanistic Judaism, Valley Cities Jewish Community Center, Temple Adat Ari El, Sholem Community, Workmen's Circle/ Arbeter Ring, and the Misha & Sonia Yablon Cultural Foundation, among others.

Yiddish Culture and Books.

La maison de la Culture Yiddish à Paris.

The International Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter.

Publishes the journal "Afn Shvel" (On the Threshhold").

Yiddish texts of works familiar to many only in translation, with revised spelling and improved fonts. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories.

This article has a lot of information on Yiddish music, as well as some great links to other sites.

Climb with Dora Teitelboim to new heights of melodious beauty in this exquisitely translated collection of her finest works.

Founded in 1960 by the Council of Jewish Federations, the NFJC works with artists, scholars, cultural institutions and community agencies to enhance the quality of Jewish life in America.

The inspiration for AJWS' work is drawn from the demand for social ustice articulated by the Jewish tradition.