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Refoyl's Yiddish resources

• Searchable Yiddish-English dictionary
• Searchable Yiddish-Dutch dictionary. Very comprehensive; data from Justus van de Kamp. His dictionary site is Jiddische Lexicografie Amsterdam .
• Yiddish typewriter and spelling checker
• Yiddish spell checker and normalizer
• Yiddish glosser (shows English definitions)
• Yiddish song database
• Der Bavebter Yid: Electronic magazine
• Stutshkov's Oytser (searchable; transliteration only)
• Der Groyser Verterbukh fun der Yidisher Shprakh (searchable; Yiddish letters only)
• Der Groyser Verterbukh fun der Yidisher Shprakh, letters ב, ג, ד, ה
• The complete works of Sholem Aleichem (searchable and editable; Yiddish letters only).
• Yiddish institutes and programs
• Manipulating Yiddish texts under the Unix operating system
• Harkavy's 1910 bidirectional dictionary
• Weinreich's bidirectional dictionary (off-site. searchable!)
• Harkavy's Yiddish-English-Hebrew dictionary (1928 expanded 2nd edition) (off-site. searchable!)
• The "Refoyl" Cursive Yiddish font, both Mac Truetype and TrueType (right-click to download, then install on your computer)
• The "Nachlaot" Cursive Yiddish font, both Mac Truetype and TrueType (right-click to download, then install on your computer)
• The "Mashkit" Old Yiddish font: TrueType (right-click to download, then install on your computer)
• The "Weinreichish" font, based on Times New Roman, with Weinreich's connected double-vov, and the original double-vov at the otherwise unassigned Unicode 05EB.

Yiddish texts

• Anonymous: Shlof Mayn Kind, Shlof Keseyder | Oy, a libe iz an umglik | Shikt der har (version 1) (version 2) | Zingt-zhe ale yidelekh
• Sholem Berger: Spontan Lid 1 | Spontan Lid 2 (unikod) | nay-ufgedekte lider (PDF) | mesukener mezumen: shoyn tsurik tsu aykh in keshene (PDF) | vos iz vikhtik (naye verter) (PDF)
• Rokhl Bushevski-Kaplan: Mayn letst lid (unikod)
• Daniel Charney: O kum shoyn shtiler ovnt (PDF)
• T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (translated)
• Itsik Feffer: S'iz loyter der rusisher step / ikh hob keynmol nit geblondzhet (PDF)
• Raphael Finkel: Ven di Vint
• Raphael Finkel, translator: A tentsl, mayn kale (Waltzing Matilda) (unicode) (mp3) | Jabberwocky (See also an international Jabberwocky site.)
• IAYC Conference: dos eynikl kumt (2005) | a sude (2006) | gebrakht vetshere tsu der tsayt (2007) | zunik in droysn (2010) | in shvues (2013)
• Mordkhe Gebirtik: dray tekhterlekh (PDF)
• Moshe-Leyb Halpern: gey fartrayb zey
• Malke Heifetz-Tussman: Bahit | Der Mazik
• Binem Heller: in vunderlekhn loshn | mayn shvester Khaye | in varshever geto iz itst khoydesh nisn
• Dovid Hofshteyn: In Vinter Farnakhtn
• Shmerke Kaczerginski: Friling
• Rokhl Korn: A Nay Kleyd | Benkshaft | Keyner Veyst es Nisht | A Briv | Fun Yener Zayt Lid (pdf file)
• Moyshe Kulbak: Asore Dibraye
• Basheva Landesberg: yankl un der bebl-shtengl (retelling) | ,,trakhtn'' fun a fuftsn-yor alt yingl | ikh bin geven mayn eygener zeyde (translation) | kleyne royte forn-kapishon, (retelling) | ikh ver elter (translation) | a fraynd (translation) | Bed in Summer (translation from Robert L. Stevenson)
• Aaron Lebedeff: Rumenye, Rumenye | Slutsk
• Mani Leyb: Di noyt (transcribed by Eliezer Niborski) | Shtiler, stiler (transcribed by Michael Tanksley)
• H. Leyvik: J. C. R. S. (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society: Spivak Sanatorium in Denver)
• Yitskhok Ludin: der findzhan (original Hebrew by Khayem Fefer)
• Leyb Neydus: der rob (original English by Edgar Allen Poe)
• Itsik Manger: Rebbenu Tam | Ikh bin der Veg keyn Mayrev
• Melburn Yugntruf-Yidish-Vokhnikes: vinter tsayt in melburn
• Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh) der mishpokhe mashber (optical character recognition; very long)
• Brayne Rabinovitsh: Far mayn tatns suke
• Meylekh Ravitsh: A lid on a nomen
• Avrom Reisen: A Gezind Zalbe Akht | Borekh Ate [PDF]
• Moyshe Richter: Khave-Leye -- Gut Shabes (1899)
• Morris Rosenfeld: Mayn Yingele
• L. Rozenthal / Misha Veksler: Koyft-zhe papirosn (Yisrolik) PDF | utf8
• Bella Schaechter-Gottesman: Harbstlid
• Sylvia Schildt: A Yiddish Vort (1996) | In dem Templ (1996). | Akht Kleyne Brider (updated 1996).
• Elyezer Shteynbarg: af a shteyn
• Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl: Shpinvebekhts | Di tsvey lukhes
• Avrem Sutskever: du zogst | lider fun togbukh | poetishe verk 1 | poetishe verk 2 | firkantike oysyes | tsaytike penemer | other poems | (optical character recognition; to be improved)
• Yankev Shmuel Toybes: Ping-pong (Limerik #8)
• United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights PDF | Unicode (UTF)
• Mark Warshawsky: Afn Pripetshik | Dos lid fun broyt
• Yugntruf-Yidish-Vokhnikes: Dos Hayzele (1996) | Viglid (1998) | Balem Bili Balem (1999) | Der Yunger Arbeter (2001) | Zumer Zikhroynes (2003) | A Nay Yor (2004) | Malkele mayn Lyalkele (2006) | Vi di ban geyt (2009) | Di Shenk (2010) | Yidish-Vokh Himen (2011) | Geboyrn-tog-lid (2012) | | Mandlbroyt (2013) | Vi dos porfolk tantst (2017) | | To Celia (Ben Johnson), translated | Sukes-lid (2022) | Shvues-lid (2023)
• Aharon Zeitlin: Dona Dona
• Sam Zerin: Eyer mit fleysh (Green Eggs and Ham)
• Shpoler Zeyde: Shpoler Zeydes nign (PDF) (MP3)
• Droshes af parshes (PDF format, various authors): beshalekh 5757 | khukas 5758 | bolek 5757 | eykev 5757 | khukas 5757 | ki seytse 5757 | koyrekh 5757 | matos masey 5757 | pinkhes 5757 | khaye sore 5757 | lekh lekho 5757 | bolek 5758
• di fir kashes
• דאָס ליד איז געבליבן ― The Song Remains (Poetry of murdered poets in Poland: ) (off-site. searchable!)
• Poetry in Hell (Yiddish Poetry in the Ringelblum Archives) (off-site)

Non-Yiddish texts

• Raphael Finkel and Michael Fox: Egalitarian Kesubo (Aramaic)
• Raphael Finkel: Ritual slaughter of the latke (English)
• Naomi Shemer: Al Kol Eyle (Hebrew)
• Raphael Finkel: Refoyl's trop page
• Raphael Finkel and Greg Stump: Hebrew verb morphology generator

Yiddish organizations

• Arbeter Ring (Workers' Circle) (circle.org)
• YIVO (yivo.org)
• National Yiddish Book Center (yiddishbookcenter.org)
• National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (nytf.org)
• Maison de la culture yiddish (Bibliothèque Medem) (www.yiddishweb.com/english/)
• Yiddishkayt Initiative (yilovejewish.org)
• Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA) (yaaana.org)
• Jewish Public Library (jewishpubliclibrary.org/)
• Committee for Yiddish (www.committeeforyiddish.com/)
• Yiddishkayt LA (yiddishkayt.org/)
• Kultur Kongres (Congress for Jewish Culture) (congressforjewishculture.org/)
• Sholem Aleychem Hoyz (bethshalomaleichem.co.il/)
• Yung Yidish (yiddish.co.il/)
• International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC) (yiddish.world)

• Jiddische Lexicografie Amsterdam (Free Yiddish-Dutch dictionary, very comprehensive)
• Ruth Rubin Sound Archive
• The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection
• Yiddish Dialect Dictionary
• Online Treasury of Yiddish Poems
• User's Guide to Yiddish on the Computer
• Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary (Beinfeld and Bochner)
• List of Semitic words in Yiddish, organized by pronunciation
• Yiddish Cultural Dictionary for the 21st Century (Dovid Katz)
• YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Mendele: Forum for Yiddish Language and Literature
• Leybl's velt
• Yiddish poetry with translations in several languages
• Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University
• Yiddish bulletin board
• Yiddish Forwards
• Songs by Mordechai Gebirtig
• The Forward Hour (New York, WMCA AM 570)
• Yugntruf
• Yiddish songs (French site)
• Der Yidisher Tam-Tam
• Virtual Shtetl
• The Yiddish Book Center
• Yiddish collection (digitized) at the Goethe Universität
• Out of print Yiddish books, Medem Library, Paris
• The Yiddish Voice Store (Commercial)
• Ira Krakow's Jewish Web Page (Commercial)
• Broder's books, Yiddish section (Commercial)
• Yankl Halpern's Yiddish Page
• Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company: Yiddish programs
• Lebn Fragn, digitalization of all 63 years of the organ of the Arbeter-ring in Israel.
• the Rose Leis Story, photos of handwritten and printed text, autobiographical (1897-1980, Slutsk and New York).
• Postcard collection, Benny Swartzberg's collection of European postcards, many with Yiddish handwritten inscriptions.
• Yiddish Voice Radio
• New York Public Library Jewish Division
• Understanding Yiddish Information Processing
• Zoila's Yiddish Page
• Der Bay
• Yiddish Language and Literature at Penn
• Yiddish Poetry in America
• Yiddish dance
• Interactive database of Jewish Song
• Secular Yiddish Schools in America Collection
• Weather forecast in Yiddish (transliterated)
• Arele: A Yiddish workbook by Frida Cielak
• The poetry of Alter Esselin
• The poetry of Israel Fuhrman
• Kadimah (Melbourne, Australia), with links to other Australian Yiddish sites
• The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture
• International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam collection of Yiddish material
• Brown University collection of digitized Yiddish sheet music
• NY Public Library online guide to finding Yiddish music
• Joe Schwartz's collection of music
• Paris Yiddish Center
• di yunge gvardye
• Katlekanye's blog
• Sholem Berger's blog
• Eve Jochnowitz's blog
• Noam Starik's blog
• Di kats der payats: Yiddish version of Cat in the Hat
• Jewish Language Research Website
• Frankfurt am Main Yiddish texts
• Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
• Living Traditions
• Haynt: The Jewish Daily newspaper in Warsaw, 1908-1939
• The World of Yiddish (Yiddish texts and audio files)
• Computer terms in Yiddish
• Yiddish periodicals for sale
• Yisroel Shtern Project
• The Yiddish Music Hall
• Zikhronos fun Gulag (Motl der Shoykhet)
• English - Yiddish online translation (good for reference, but don't rely on it!)
• Rhymed couplets by Max Winer (accent: Kielce)
• Vilnius Yiddish Institute
• Dovid Katz's web site
• Jewish Lithuania summer program
• Yiddish Sources website
• Online Yiddish lessons
• Ben Shaffer's Online English-Yiddish dictionary
• Blog on Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (with links to sound recordings)
• Mumme Looshen (a linguistic book on Yiddish, with SY transcriptions)
• Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library
• Recordings of Hassidic men and women (zip archive)
• Maps of Jewish Eastern Europe (Hershl Glasser)
• Historical Jewish Press
• The Grosbard Project
• Children's books in Yiddish (at the Russian National Library)
• Digital Yiddish Theatre Project
• Corpus of Modern Yiddish
• Stonehill Jewish Song Collection

Non-Ashkenazic Jewish resources

• Non-Ashkenazic Jewish resources.
• Jewish languages

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