Yiddish

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Keynote speech about Jewish Theatre March 2007 by Theodore Bikel

All's Well That Ends Well
A Dictionary of Proverbs
2000 Idiomatic Expressions in Yiddish Let's Hear Only Good News
Yiddish Blessings and Curses
 
YIDDISH RADIO
Yiddish Music
Yiddish masterpieces, Shalom Aleichem Yiddish plays, Yiddish humour,
3 Yiddish tenors, Klezmer and more
GENERAL SITES OF INTEREST
Yiddish Chanukah poem
translated by Theodore Bikel
2004 was the centenary of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Read about the Nobel-prize winning writer
A section of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel acceptance speech was in Yiddish
 Listen to a sound clip of the speech in Real Audio

As a result of numerous requests from our readership,
we have now opened a small Yiddish section
on the Hebrew Songs.com website.

If you would like to contribute your favourite Yiddish song words,
Please click here

Australian Yiddish Websites

Australian Yiddish Literature

Read about Yiddish and the Internet

World Yiddish Websites

in alphabetical order
 
Avivaleh's Yiddish Page
 
Der Bay
 
Gilbert and Sullivan - in Yiddish!!
 
Helen's Yiddish Dance page
Dances of the Jews of Eastern Europe.
Great variety of Yiddish resource links.
 
Jacob Richman's list of Yiddish websites
 
National Yiddish Book Centre
 
On-line Yiddish Bookstore
 
Refoyl's Yidishe Veb Zaytl
 
Yiddish baby names
 
Yiddish Language Playscripts
Includes 77 Yiddish plays from the Library of Congress Archives
"Yiddish Stuff"
Great variety of Yiddish resource links on the Haruth.com website
 
Yiddish Voice
Fascinating range of articles and links from around the Yiddish world
 
Yivo
The preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry
and Yiddish language, literature, and folklore.
 
Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish website
A New-York based organisation that promotes Yiddish activities.
 
Zemerl - The Princeton University Jewish Song Database
Yiddish Song words.  An invaluable resource.
 

Melbourne

Community
 
Kadimah
Jewish Cultural Center and National Library
 
The Penina Zylberman Yiddish Cultural Trust
 
Sholem Aleichem College
 
SKIF Youth Movement   
 
Yiddish Radio
 
Radio SBS Melbourne- 1224AM
Yiddish programs
Fridays 3-4 pm, Sundays 12.15-1 pm, Wednesdays 3-4 pm


Archive of SBS Yiddish radio programs

Hebrew programs
Fridays 2-3 pm, Sundays 11-12:15 am, Wednesdays 2-3 pm


 

Radio 3ZZZ Melbourne - 92.3 FM   Phone (03) 9415-1928

Sunday            11am to 12midday   Yiddish/English
Wednesday       9pm to 10pm          Hebrew
Friday                 3pm to   4pm          Hebrew

Programs can be heard from the website for up to a week after broadcast.

 
Yiddish Music
 
Klezmania
 
Klezmeritis
 

   
Sydney

Jewish Folk Centre
Yiddish at the University of Sydney
Yiddish Language Literature and Culture
Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies


Thanks to our contributors

To Lionel Mrocki of Melbourne for sending in the link to
the Zemerl Song Words website and the Yiddish Voice site.


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