Learn More About Yiddish Culture Online

  • National Yiddish Book Center
    www.yiddishbookcenter.org
    Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, the National Yiddish Book Center houses one of the world's largest collections of Yiddish books, offers books for sale, and runs a variety of programs, including summer internships for college students.

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
    This major center for studying Yiddish culture, located in New York City, houses a vast library and archives and offers a variety of programs, in conjunction with New York University.

  • KlezKamp
    Living Traditions runs this annual Yiddish folk arts program, which offers workshops in performing klezmer music, Yiddish folksong, Yiddish language, literature, and folklore, among other topics.

  • Forward Association
    Publisher of The Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper with editions in Yiddish, English, and Russian.

  • Folksbiene
    America's longest-running Yiddish theater company presents fully staged productions (with super-titles in English) and readings of Yiddish plays annually in New York City.

  • Workmen's Circle
    This secular Yiddish organization, based in New York City with branches across North America, runs a variety of Yiddish public programs, including concerts, summer camp programs, and classes in Yiddish language.

  • Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish
    This New York-based organization sponsors a wide range of activities conducted in Yiddish, including Yidishvokh, a week-long retreat.

  • Der Bay
    Based in San Francisco, this newsletter contains information about Yiddish clubs and other Yiddish cultural activities around the world, plus links to an array of Yiddish sites.

  • National Center for Jewish Film
    Based at Brandeis University, this organization restores, rents, and sells a variety of films, including classic works of Yiddish cinema.

  • Yiddish Radio Project
    Listen to and learn about American Yiddish radio broadcasting during the middle decades of the 20th century.