AHEYM - The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories

AHEYM - The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories Also, some interviews were recorded in Poland as well as in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Israel. For more: https://aheym.com/

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Archives of Historical & Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (AHEYM), linguistic & oral history project: interviews with some 500 veteran native Yiddish speakers The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (AHEYM — the acronym means "homeward" in Yiddish) is a linguistic and oral history project that includes

Yiddish language interviews with close to 400 people, most of whom were born between the 1900s and the 1930s, conducted in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.

אויסגעצייכנטע מוסטערן פון ליטוויש יידיש פארשריבענע פון דוד קאץ אין ליטע אין די פריע 1990ער
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https://youtu.be/FVGJztXgXrYEarly 1990s pilot for LYVA: Lithuanian Yiddish Dialects (for Oxford students)*Part of the Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA)...

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These interviews, with natives of historic Jewish colonies in (southeastern) Ukraine, are extracted from the Yiddish in Ukraine Video Archive (YUVA, at: http...

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AHEYM - The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories

Adolf Smajovics grew up with two brothers and one sister, as well as four half-siblings. He attended cheder at the age of four and began his education at a Czech school in Vynohradiv when he was six years old. His father was a field worker and died in 1926, as result of an accident with his horses.....

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SOME YIDDISH FOLKLORE SAMPLES

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AHEYM — Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories

Indiana University Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (AHEYM — the acronym means "homeward" in Yiddish) is a linguistic and oral history project that includes Yiddish language interviews with close to 400 people, most of whom were born between the 1900s and the 1930s, conducted extensively in Ukraine, as well as Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia. On a number of occasions, additional interviews were recorded in Lithuania, Latvia and Israel. The interviews were recorded at numerous expeditions since 2002. The most recent one to Poland and parts of Western Ukraine was in 2017.