Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
Letter to Tuvie Feder
“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…
With God’s Help
With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
Yiddish Literary Café
The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…
Jewishness (Yidishkayt) and Other Problems
Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…
The Sermon
For a while there was quiet—a total, final quiet in the room. Then the chairman stirred, beetling his heavy eyebrows, and spoke with gruff, ironical severity: “Comrade Yudka, I call you to order! If…
Discussion of the Founding of the Demievka School
Despite all the great difficulties and obstacles, the school in Demievka soon attracted the attention of the Kiev Jewish public. The remote muddy little street in Demievka became a central location…
Letter about the Choir
Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
Arabic-Yiddish Teacher: A Guide for the Jewish Legionnaires in the Land of Zion
Cover of Arabish-yidisher lehrer: Veg vayzer far di yidishe legyoneren in Tsiyen (Arabic-Yiddish Teacher: A guide for Jewish legionnaires in Zion). This self-guided primer on Palestinian Arabic for…
Piyyut in Honor of R. Faradji Chaouat
O our God! O our God!May Rabbi Frājī be with us.Come, people, and hear what happened to Rabbi Frājī, how he passed on.He sent after the gozbar and said to him “Come before us.”When the gozbar cam…
Our Status in the Country, or the Question of Learning Arabic
A.
Mr. Ya‘acov Rabinovitch expressed bitterness about my work in Ha-Poel Ha-Tsa‘ir. I proposed: (1) the formation of one union for all Jewish Arabic teacher…
Anthology of Songs and Melodies of Andalusian Heritage
It seemed to us that there would be a real interest, for the natives and Arabists alike, to have between their hands a collection of ghernata [Granada] poetry as complete as possible and methodically…