Jewish Studies Research Guide

A table provided by Princeton University for Hebrew transliteration.

Project Ben-Yehuda strives to digitally conserve the treasures of Hebrew literature, creating an online library of Hebrew works that are available to the public for free, without advertising. The project’s main goals are to preserve Hebrew works, to make them accessible to the public, and to expose them to new readers, encouraging engagement with them.

A transliteration table for Ladino including general notes on the orthography of the language provided by the Library of Congress.

A table provided by Princeton University for Yiddish transliteration.

Provides broad coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic, and includes regional and dialectal variants alongside standard literary Yiddish forms. Requires subscription.

In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.

Shund.org is a database of Yiddish popular fiction, collecting and analyzing works of entertainment literature written in Yiddish and published as books and pamphlets and serialized in the Yiddish press.

Archives from the Yiddish counterpart to the Forward magazine

Language and lexicon projects that promote research and education of Jewish languages past and contemporary.

A transliteration table for Judeo-Arabic including general notes on the orthography of the language provided by the Library of Congress.