Yiddish

Last Updated: 29-May-2014

Research Skills

This guide identifies resources on Yiddish language and literature in Stanford's collections as well as links to outside resources.

Subject Librarians

Zachary Baker, in the outdoor passageway between Green Library and the School of Education.

Zachary M Baker

Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development - Humanities and Social Sciences, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections

Cecil H. Green Library

(650) 725-1054

zbaker@stanford.edu

Anna M Levia

Assistant Curator, Judaica & Hebraica Collections , Interim Bibliographer, Linguistics

Cecil H. Green Library

(650) 736-1306

amlevia@stanford.edu

Subjects

Jewish studies

Hebraica

Judaica

Around Stanford

Taube Center for Jewish Studies

Indexes
Online collections
Archival and manuscript collections

Indexes

Indeḳs tsu der Yidisher peryodiḳ [electronic resource] = Index to Yiddish periodicals = Mafteaḥ ʻitonut Yidish / miṭ der tsuzamenarbeṭ fun der Natsyonal-bibliyoṭeḳ in Yerusholaim.

[Yerushalayim : ha-Universiṭah ha-ʹIvrit bi-Yerushalayim]

Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource

Index to Jewish periodicals.

[Cleveland Heights, etc., Index to Jewish Periodicals, etc.]

Green Library » Information Center » Z6367 .I5 V.23-25 1985-1987

Reshimat ma'amarim be-madaʻe ha-yahadut.

Yerushalayim : Hotsa'at Sefarim al Shem Y. L. Magnes,

SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Z6367 .R43 V.50 2000

Online collections

Aheym אהיים: The Archives of historical and ethnographic Yiddish memories

The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (Indiana University Bloomington) explores Jewish life in Eastern Europe before, during and after World War II. The archive consists of nearly 400 interviews, conducted primarily in Yiddish, and mostly in small towns throughout Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

Jiddische Drucke / Yiddish prints

Approximately 800 Yiddish books from the collections of the Universitätsbibliothek at Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main). This collection is particularly strong in pre-1800 imprints.

Judaica Sound Archives

Includes streaming audio tracks for Yiddish songs and other Jewish musical genres. The Judaica Sound Archives is based at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton).

Yiddish books online

Provides access to 11,000 Yiddish books digitized by the National Yiddish Book Center, along with more than 800 community memorial volumes (yizkor books) from the collections of the New York Public Library and the Yiddish Book Center.

YIVO LibraryBooks.org

Yiddish publications and Hebrew-language rabbinica from the collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York). Includes runs of the journals Yidishe shprakh and Yivo-bleter.

YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland

Poland was once the home of the largest Jewish community in the world and until World War II was one of the great centers of Jewish political, cultural, and religious life.YIVO’s Polish Jewish Archive is the only American collection, and one of very few worldwide, which was saved from the destruction of the Holocaust.Explore this world here through manuscripts, posters, photographs, music and other artifacts.