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/

Project website: https://aheym.com/
Aheym online archive: https://aheym.org/
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.

We generally think of Yiddish as the language that Jews spoke in the shtetls of Eastern Europe before WWII, and of its s...
08/16/2026

We generally think of Yiddish as the language that Jews spoke in the shtetls of Eastern Europe before WWII, and of its surviving speakers as having long-ago resettled across various continents. We don’t tend to think about the native Yiddish speakers who remained in the shtetls. Luckily, some researchers in Bloomington, Indiana have.

We generally think of Yiddish as the language that Jews spoke in the shtetls of Eastern Europe before WWII, and of its...

05/20/2026
05/16/2026
אויסגעצייכנטע מוסטערן פון ליטוויש יידיש פארשריבענע פון דוד קאץ אין ליטע אין די פריע 1990ער
02/24/2026

אויסגעצייכנטע מוסטערן פון ליטוויש יידיש פארשריבענע פון דוד קאץ אין ליטע אין די פריע 1990ער

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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