WWW VL - Yiddish sources in historical research

(Under construction. Over time I will add more relevant links and a bibliography.)

Links & online articles:

Yiddish Theatre Forum
Special issues of the Mendele mailing list devoted to the history of the Yiddish theatre.

Yiddish Theatre and Vaudeville Research Group
A mailing list hosted by JewishGen.

Research Library and Archives of Jewish Theater
A site "for those interested in research of Jewish theater. Its focus is study of Jewish national art theater as a cultural and social phenomenon of the late 19th - 20th centuries as well as histories of particular theatrical enterprises."

Working group Jewish Intercultural Performance - International Foundation for Theatre Research.

Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre - on the JewishGen website.
List of transliterated names of entries in volume 5 of Zalmen Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishen Teater.

Yiddish Theater Collection - New York Public Library (Dorot Jewish Division)

The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays: An Annotated Bibliography.
Guide to this important collection of Yiddish plays at the Library of Congress.

Findbuch zum nachlass von Israil Bercovici (1921-1988).
Guide to the personal archive of writer and theatre historian Israel Bercovici held at the library of the University of Potsdam.