AHEYM - The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories

10/28/2026

Oral History interviews in Yiddish collected since 1959 by the Oral History Division of The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew University of Oral History Division - Hebrew University Jerusalem)

The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry [ICJ] began collecting oral histories for the purposes of historical research in 1959, with the assistance of pioneering scholars such as Yehuda Bauer, Dov Levin and Haim Avni. These early interviews, covering a wide range of subjects and conducted....

10/15/2026

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SONGS and SONG Fragments from the AHEYM COLLECTION

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 approximately 380 people, most of whom were born between the 1900s and the 1930s. The interviews we...

09/26/2026

Very first critically controlled Claude index of the online AHEYM video archive, thanks to AHEYM’s new Director and Curator, Dr Leyzer Burko (לייזער־וואָלף בורקאָ)

https://claude.ai/artifact/Nqq7k3j7fxRBQitRdyJJCC

Searchable index of the AHEYM Yiddish interview collection at Indiana University, by place, person and topic, linking each segment to the recording.

08/23/2026

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Full archive of all the posts from Naomi Spector.

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...

07/08/2026

https://archive.org/details/der-viledniker-ksav-yad-fun-ovruch

Yiddish manuscript in part coinciding with the hagiographic collection Sipurey Nifloes (Zhitomir, 1901) about the Viledniker tsadik, Yisroel Deyv, aka Ysroel...

06/07/2026

https://forward.com/yiddish/828539/a-guide-to-the-corpus-interviews-with-european-native-yiddish-speakers/

פֿאַר סטודענטן זענען די ייִדישע אונטערקעפּלעך זייער ניצלעך ווײַל זיי העלפֿן בעסער פֿאַרשטיין וואָס די אינטערוויויִרטע זאָגן

05/20/2026

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