Note: Yiddish Literature in translation is becoming more recognized today because of a renewed interest in the aftermath of the Holocaust. While the North American view of Yiddish tends to instantly call up far-fetched comedy routines or the musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, (adapted from Sholem Aleichem’s beloved stories of Tevye the milkman), the sophistication and fascinating scope of the literature is now available to English readers. Despite the fact that millions of English readers enjoy translated works such as Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s Russian masterpiece in English, or works by Marcel Proust, translated from the French, Yiddish Literature translated into English up until now has not been met with as much success.

Readers interested in studying the literary movements such as classicism, romanticism, neo-romanticism, expressionism, impressionism and modernism in world literatures, would be surprised to find all of these literary elements abundant in Yiddish Literature. The space available to recreate works of Yiddish Literature in English with wonderful translations is remarkable. For more information on Yiddish books in translation please see the Recommended Reading List.

For more information on Yiddish History and its writers in general Please refer to these Suggested Links.

Yiddish Literature

Jewish Public Library

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/projects/Yiddish/English/literature.html

Yiddish Overview
100 greatest works of Modern Yiddish Literature
http://www.webdesk.com/100-greatest-works-of-modern-jewish-literature/

Wonderful resource for bibliographies and the phonetics of the language
http://www.jewish-languages.org/yiddish.html

Good Source of Information on history of the literature and some of its writers
http://www.strugglingwriter.com/literat.htm

Jewish writers of the 20th century
http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/1996.html

Classic Yiddish Books for sale
http://members.aol.com/msybooks/fiction.html

The Politics of Yiddish
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/outlook/yiddishliterature.html

Wonderful Gallery of Photos of Yiddish Writers
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/

Wonderful links, including a virtual tour of the shtetl and Yiddish-English dictionaries
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/yiddish.html

A large and excellent variety of links
http://www.sensei.co.il/yiddish/favorites.asp

National Yiddish Book Center
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

A Celebration of Jewish Women Writers
www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/JEWISH.html

http://www.haruth.com/WOMEN.htm

http://www.lilithmag.com/books/9712yiddish.shtml

Jewish Women’s Voices: Past and Present: A Bibliography
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/women_judaism/vo1no1/v1n1form.htm

Poetesses
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fishstein/present.php?catname=WOMAN%20POETS

Przemysl-essay

www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/prz015.html#Przemysl

www.sassich.net/eynzam.htm

http://classiclit.about.com/cs/worldliterature/index.htm

http://classiclit.about.com/cs/kauthorswriters/

Steven Spielberg’s Website
http://spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/kv/jewcom.swf

Soviet Yiddish Writers and Stalinist Purges

http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/081302JTA.shtml

http://www.northeasttimes.com/2002/0327/sholom.html

http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2002-10-23/ae.html

http://www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar/english/opinionbarucht7.htm

Article: Yiddish in the USSR
http://www.lib.umd.edu/SLSES/donors/eng_articles/ussr.html

Yiddish Culture

http://judaism.about.com/cs/yiddish/

http://stars.coe.fr/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc96/EDOC7489.htm

Yiddish radio
http://www.yiddishvoice.com/

Yiddish Language and Literature newsletter and forum
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/intro.htm

More Good Links
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cria/Current-projects/Yiddish/list.html


Avivale’s Yiddish Page: Anecdotes and a personal view on Yiddish
http://www.starkman.com/aviva/yiddish.html

Yiddish Store: Order books, music etc.
http://www.yiddishstore.com/

Brief History, Yiddish Proverbs
http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~ufsitarz/unyidd.htm

Der Bay: Journal of Yiddish culture
http://www.derbay.org/

Best links of authors, Yiddish and more...
http://www.haruth.com/Yiddish_Stuff.htm

Yankl Halpern’s Yiddish site
http://www.kanji.org/kanji/jack/yiddish/yidhome.htm

The History and Development of Yiddish
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/yiddish.html

Collection of Yiddish Books
http://www.lib.umd.edu/SLSES/index.html

Mikhoels

A little history of the famous Yiddish actor
http://www.festival.gluz.ru/eng/press/1/ny_times140198.html

Out of Print Books: Jewish web-sites

http://www.schwartzjudaica.com/cgi-bin/sjb455/scan/map=cats/se=Yiddish/st=sql/tf=author/tf=title/cs=no/
em=yes.html

http://members.aol.com/bookssss/yiddish_books.html

Jews in Russia
The history of the Jews in Russia
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/

Pictures of Writers
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/bilder5.htm

Dictionary

http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Vort/

http://www.ectaco.com/online/diction.php3?lang=15

Vilna Yiddish Institute

http://www.yiddishvilnius.com/

Yiddish Movies
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/Yiddish/

Yiddish Music
http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezradio.html

Yiddish Research
http://ddickerson.igc.org/yiddish-research-network.html

Australian Yiddish Literature
http://judaica.library.usyd.edu.au/catalog/yiddish.html

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