Judaic Studies

Online and print.
Emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world.

Online and print.
The most extensive Yiddish-English dictionary to date. Published by Indiana University Press.

Provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or business people communicate when visiting Yiddish-speaking communities.

189 catalog results (accessed September 2023). The Joseph A. Labadie Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive collections of its kind, with materials on anarchism, anti-colonialist movements, antiwar and pacifist movements, atheism and free thought, civil liberties and civil rights, ecology, labor and workers’ rights, feminism, LGBTQ movements, prisons and prisoners, the New Left, the Spanish Civil War, and youth and student protest. Image: Joseph A. Labadie.

Offers a step-by-step approach to Yiddish as it is spoken and written today. Colloquial Yiddish provides the first widely available, easily accessible, comprehensive Yiddish course designed primarily for the twenty-first-century international English-speaking independent learner and suitable for use in Yiddish classes worldwide.

This all-new, multimedia Yiddish textbook will make learning Yiddish accessible, engaging, and a lot more intuitive. Its communicative approach combines the latest advances in language pedagogy with newly available digital tools, winsome characters, and an engaging design.

With new essays by David Birnbaum, Eleazar Birnbaum, Kalman Weiser, and Jean Baumgarten. Unlike other grammars and study guides for English speakers, Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar fully describes the Southern Yiddish dialect and pronunciation used today by most native speakers, while also taking into account Northern Yiddish and Standard Yiddish, associated with secularist and academic circles.

A reference to 130 Yiddish stories available in translation. Includes concise plot summaries arranged by subject; bibliographical information; and biographical sketches of authors.

Presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present.

Started in 1941 (as the organ of the Freeland League for Territorialist Colonization), Afn Shvel is committed to the promotion and preservation of the Yiddish language and culture. Features articles of Yiddish cultural, literary, linguistic and communal interest, as well as a beautiful, modern layout, high-resolution photos, and extensive glossaries to help newer readers.

In Hebrew. Published in Israel between 2006-2012.

A periodical for literature and social problems. Published by Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-ʻovdim ha-ʻIvrim be-Erets-Yiśraʼel.

In geveb aims to be a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship.

Started in Paris in 1948. Published by the Ḳulṭur-tsenṭer bay der Federatsye fun Yidishe gezelshafṭn in Franḳraykh.

A Yiddish language journal published in Berlin between 1922-1924. Milgroim (meaning: Pomegranate) was a unique phenomenon, and was dedicated to Jewish arts, from various fields. Library holds volumes 1-2, 1922.

Pakn tregers traveled from shtetl to shtetl in Eastern Europe bringing books and news of the world. Today, Pakn Treger carries on that tradition as the magazine of the Yiddish Book Center.

A project by the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University that provides digital versions of each paper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.

Available online through EBSCOhost, some issue available in print.
Originally focused on the study of sociology, history, psychology, language & literature of eastern European Jewry and later changed its center of attention to Jewish life in the United States. Issued between 1946-1983.