Tools

Follow this collection of links to other sites and resources essential to the craft of Yiddish literary translation.

Dictionaries

Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary: www.verterbukh.org

Refoyl Finkel’s Yiddish Resources: www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html (includes: a searchable Yiddish-English dictionary; searchable versions of: the Groyser verterbukh fun der yidisher shrapkhStutshkov’s Oytser fun der yidisher shprakh,  and Alexander Harkavy’s 1910 bidirectional dictionary; a Yiddish typewriter and spell-checker; and much more)

Morfix Hebrew-English Dictionary: www.morfix.co.il

LEO Multilingual German Dictionary: http://dict.leo.org

DICT Polish-English Dictionary: http://dict.pl/dict

Multitran Multilingual Russian Dictionary: www.multitran.ru

The Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com

Collins English Thesaurus: www.collinsdictionary.com/english-thesaurus

 

Other Yiddish-related Resources

The Steven Spielberg Digital Library at the Yiddish Book Center: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/books/search

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: www.yivoencyclopedia.org

Index of Yiddish Periodicals at Hebrew University: http://yiddish-periodicals.huji.ac.il/

Az men zukht, gefint men! Dov-Ber Kerler’s Online Yiddish Resources: https://sites.google.com/site/onlineyiddishresources/

Elektronnaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopediia (Online Jewish Encyclopedia, in Russian): http://eleven.co.il

Understanding Yiddish Information Processing: www.uyip.org

Yiddish Sources: www.yiddish-sources.com

Google Chrome Yiddish Typer Extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yiddish-typer/

 

Yiddish-related Organizations

The Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA): www.yiddishbookcenter.org

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY): www.yivo.org

Maison de la culture yiddish Bibliothèque Medem (Paris, France): http://yiddishweb.com

Vilnius Yiddish Insitute (Vilnius, Lithuania): www.judaicvilnius.com

Leyvik House (Tel Aviv, Israel): www.leyvik.co.il

Fundación IWO (Buenos Aires, Argentina): www.iwo.org.ar

Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Canada): www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

 

Literary Translation Resources & Organizations

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA): www.utdallas.edu/alta/

Banff International Literary Translation Centre: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1318

British Centre for Literary Translation: www.bclt.org.uk

Center for the Art of Translation: www.catranslation.org

PEN American Center: www.pen.org

Three Percent: www.rochester.edu/college/translation/threepercent/

Words Without Borders: http://wordswithoutborders.org/