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The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.

Mar 27, 2025

My search for Stencl over the years has taken me across the globe.

Nov 10, 2024

A Yiddish teacher and software engineer tackles a thorny accessibility issue: how to teach a highly motivated student who reads braille when no braille software in the world offers Yiddish as one of the language options.

Jun 21, 2024

The third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference will be taking place online from February 18-19th, 2024. Organizers Carolyn Beard, Caleb Sher, and Sophia Shoulson discuss the origins of the initiative, this year’s offerings, and the future of Yiddish studies with Chana Toth-Sewell.

Feb 08, 2024

Shund.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.

Oct 01, 2023

The Di robotn conference celebrated the legacy of bots in the Yiddish corpus, dreaming of futures for robots in the Yiddishist world.

Mar 05, 2023

Faith Hillis reflects on building digital Yiddish community amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests.

Jun 22, 2020

Elena Hoffernberg interviews Gerben Zaagsma about his path to studying Yiddish in the Spanish Civil War; the potency and the frustrations of digital research; and the future of digital studies and Yiddish.

Feb 25, 2020

Ari Kelman talks with Mark Slobin about Inside the Yiddish Folk Song, a new website project currently under construction, which aims to be an accessible, comprehensive online introduction to the full complexity of the Yiddish folk song tradition.

Feb 14, 2020

Feb 12, 2018