Yiddish cinema, theatre and music
NCJF – National Center for Jewish Film. Nonprofit motion picture archive for Jewish and Yiddish films.
IMAJ - Institut de la Mémoire Audiovisuelle Juive.
Cinematographie des Holocaust Website of the Fritz Bauer Institute. Database of more than 1700 films (all types) about the Shoah (German/English).
Robert and Molly Friedman Jewish Sound Archive. Musical research library, collection of approx. 5,300 Judaic and Yiddish sound recordings.
Read Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimbletts introduction to Zborowski’s and Herzog’s Life is with People online:
Yiddish Theatre scripts in the American Variety Stage, Popular Entertainment 1870-1920-database of the Library of Congress:
Where to purchase Yiddish Films:
NCJF - National Center for Jewish Film
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Websites of Yiddish/Jewish interest
Yiddishweb: Website of Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem (French/Yiddish/English)
News of Parais Yiddish Center-Medem library (English).
Der bavebter Yid (Yiddish).
Dos yidishe kol. Yiddish-language radio (Yiddish/English):
Yiddish Radio Project (English/Yiddish)
Shtetl - Yiddish Language and Culture
Virtual Shtetl. – Information about more than 1700 shtetls (English/Polish)
haGalil. Jews, Judaism and Jewish life (German)
Der Forverts. The Jewish Daily Forward. Once the most read Yiddish newspaper in the USA.
Yiddish Summer Schools:
Yiddish Summer Weimar
Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, New York City:
Maison de Culture Yiddish, Bibliothèque Medem, Paris:
Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Far Eastern Research Center for Jewish Culture and Yiddish, Birobidzhan
Jewish Museums
Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dansk Jødisk Museum, Copenhague, Danmark
Jewish Museum London, London, Great Britain
Joods historisch museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jüdisches Museum Berlin , Berlin, Germany
Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Jüdisches Museum Hohenems , Hohenems, Austria
Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich, Warsaw, Poland
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Židovskĕ Muzeum z Praze, Prague, Czech Republic
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IMDB - International Movie Database
Jewish Encyclopedia. Website containig the complete contents of the 12-volume edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia originally published 1901-1906.