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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

In The Great Dic­tio­nary of Yid­dish Lan­guage: A Cham­ber Opera, com­pos­er Alex Weis­er and libret­tist Ben Kaplan endow enchant­ment and glam­or on their decid­ed­ly unglam­orous pro­tag­o­nists and, most impor­tant­ly, height­en our atten­tion to their doubts and tor­ments the way only an opera can. 

Jul 25, 2024

Yid­dish Stud­ies — Present and Future: A con­fer­ence mark­ing the 15^th yort­sayt of Dr. Mord­khe Schaechter (z’’l) includ­ed dis­cus­sion and debate.

Mar 03, 2023

David Shneer inter­views Rob Adler Peck­er­ar and Alexx Shilling about their project to bring embod­ied artis­tic inter­pre­ta­tion to bear on a lin­guis­tic archive. 

May 20, 2019

Feb 12, 2018

Ashke­naz, the undis­cov­ered coun­try, lies just north of nowhere and a lit­tle west of wher­ev­er we want it to be.

Jun 07, 2016

Ever won­der why the Yid­dish dic­tio­nary has only four vol­umes, all for the let­ter aleph? Click here to find out!

Aug 09, 2015