INTRODUCTION
The aim of this website is to provide those who wish to do historical research involving the use of Yiddish source material with
information on archives, institutions, journals, etcetera. I hope it can thus serve as a useful introduction. It is a work in progress, especially the THEMES section.
Please send any links, comments and feedback you might have to:
Gerben Zaagsma.
-- This website will be redesigned and relaunched in Winter 2010 --
Please note that several entries on the new portal European History Primary Sources link to digitized Jewish and Yiddish primary sources (either perform a free text search for "Jewish" and/or "Yiddish" or select "Yiddish" in the languages menu).
Latest updates:
13-08-2008:
More information on the
relocation plans for the Paris Yiddish Center- Medem Library in Paris.
04-04-2008:
Announcement of
100th Anniversary International Yiddish Language Conference, 18-22 august 2008. See the
conferences page for more details.
18-01-2008
Announcement of First Heidelberg International Conference in Modern Yiddish Studies:
Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917-1948, 1-3 december 2008. See the
conferences page for more details.
17-01-2008
Announcement of
XI. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland in Düsseldorf, 22-24 September 2008. See the
conferences page for more details.
17-01-2008
Added link to the Leyvik House - Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture in Tel-Aviv. See the
archives & libraries page for more details.
