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These podcasts were created from recordings of Louis Brandsdorfer’s mother, who recollected her experiences of the Shoah. She describes how many members of her family, from a small Polish town near the German border, died, while she and her sister survived. The quality of the recordings varies.

News and commentary, Yiddish and Klezmer music, and much more! Much of the site is in Russian.

Tune in and celebrate! Chagigah brings you the best in Jewish and Israeli culture. A show that transcends any language barrier, Chagigah embraces classic Yiddish and klezmer music dating from 1914 to today. The music style becomes more contemporary as the show moves into traditional Israeli folk and the latest in Israeli rock. It's worth waking up for!

The World of Yiddish / Di velt fun yidish / haOlam haYidi is devoted to Yiddish language, literature, and folklore. Special attention is given to Hebrew-Yiddish relations and the generations of bilingual (Hebrew and Yiddish) writers. The site presents classic Yiddish texts, e.g., Yehoyesh's monumental Yiddish translation of the Tanakh (Bible); reference and bibliographic materials, e.g., Louis Fridhandler's magisterial guide to the works of Shalom-Aleichem; and English abstracts of the Hebrew-language Khulyot, a journal of Yiddish studies.

E-Daf.com is an online source for Talmud Daf Yomi in Tzuras HaDaf. Listen to it in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, the longest-running Yiddish theatre company in the world, was founded in 1915. It was sustained by two of the company's veteran members – Morris Adler and Zypora Spaisman. In this American talker piece, Adler and Spaisman remember the half century they each spent with the theater.

In Yiddish, the weekly radio magazine of the Forward newspaper broadcasts every Saturday evening at 9 pm, WWCA 570 AM, in New York and New Jersey.

In its heyday in the 1930s, Yiddish radio flourished across America. Thirty stations in New York alone aired Jewish programming advice shows, variety shows, man-on-the-street-interviews, news programs, music and game shows in both Yiddish and English. The programs in this collection afford us a snapshot of American Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s.

In German, this is the largest Jewish website in Europe with a wide selection of music links. It provides news about Jewish life in Germany, Europe, and information about Israel and the Middle East. The site includes pages on Judaism, Hebrew, Yiddish, and special topics for children. In recent years they have had to concentrate more on political work and education against antisemitism and neonazism on the Internet.

In February 2004, The Library of America hosted a discussion dedicated to Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and works. Select from these links for audio of the discussion (1 hour, 22 minutes), which begins with an exploration of Singer and the Yiddish literary tradition.

Chabad offers at this site an incredible array of audio programming on topics ranging from the Daf Yomi to children’s stories, Rambam, niggunim, women’s topics, the Rebbe, lectures in Yiddish, and much more.

Every year, some of the world’s most interesting writers, artists, and scholars speak at the National Yiddish Book Center. The Center offers complete sound recordings of these presentations. Just click on the title you want to hear and the lecture will begin!

In honor of Chanukah, KCRW of Santa Monica, California presents general manager Ruth Seymour's perennially popular annual salute to Yiddish and the little villages and towns of Eastern Europe. The site contains music, stories, and memories from a world now vanished. There are shows to hear since 2001. In Yiddish and English.

This Yiddish broadcasting site covers topics including Israel, holidays, health, the Holocaust, tributes to Hanna Arendt, world Jewry, Yiddish literature, Chagal, and dozens of others.

The exhibits on this site feature the Yiddish Radio Project radio documentaries that were first broadcast on NPR's “All Things Considered”, with rare Yiddish radio clips, archival photographs, and various ephemera from a forgotten radio universe.

WUNR 1600 AM in Brookline, Massachusetts is a Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston 's Yiddish-speaking community. Yiddish voice Internet audio service includes pre-recorded interviews and songs in Yiddish.

The YIVO archives holds over 22 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, films, videotapes, and other artifacts. They comprise the world's largest collection of materials related to the history and culture of East European and American Jewry. YIVO has the foremost collection of books and documents written in Yiddish.