Jewish Language Research Website

Resources

Bibliography

• Selected Bibliography of Published Resources on Jewish Languages

Courses

• Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion)
• Benjamin Hary (Emory University)
• Elana Shohamy (Georgetown University)

Hebrew and Jewish Computing

• Hebrew Computing on Windows
• Workshop on Computing for Researchers of Hebrew and Jewish Languages
• LadinoType - a tool that transliterates Latin typing into various Ladino fonts

Mailing Lists

• JEWISH LANGUAGES - Jewish languages
• ARAMAIC - Aramaic
• ENGANGERED-LANGUAGES-L - endangered languages
• HEBREW COMPUTING - Hebrew computing
• H-JUDAIC - Jewish studies
• JEWISH COMPUTING - Jewish computing
• LADINO KOMUNITA - discussions in Ladino
• LINGUIST - linguistics
• MENDELE - Yiddish
• SEFARADI MUESTRO - discussions in Judeo-Spanish
• SEPHARDI/MIZRACHI STUDIES CAUCUS MAILING LIST - contact Aviva Ben-Ur directly at aben-ur @ judnea.umass.edu
• TATE-MAMES - raising children in Yiddish
• UYIP - Yiddish computing
• YIDDISHLAND - discussions in Yiddish

Academic Societies

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Association for Jewish Studies
• European Association for Jewish Studies
• Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics
• Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society
• Israeli Linguistic Society
• Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics
• Linguistic Society of America
• National Association of Professors of Hebrew
• World Union of Jewish Studies

Research Institutes

• Academy of the Hebrew Language
• Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Research Center of the Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
• Jewish Languages Association of the Ukraine
• Ladino Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Lily Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
• Misgav Yerushalayim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• National Center for the Hebrew Language
• Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center
• Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
• Vilnius Yiddish Institute
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Other Resources

• Jewish Onomastics (the study of Jewish names)
• Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
• Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
• Descriptions of Fields of Linguistics (Linguistic Society of America)
• Endangered Language Fund - supports the scientific study and maintenance of endangered languages and the dissemination of information to native communities and the scholarly world
• Ethnologue - database about languages of the world
• EYDES: Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies
• Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
• Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
• Harkavy Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary
• Hasafa Ha'ivrit
• Hebrew and Jewish Languages - by Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki)
• Inscriptions from the Land of Israel
• Jewish Cultural Mosaic - a virtual museum of world Jewish communities, cultures and folk traditions
• Jewish Languages - by National Library of Canada
• Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository - digitzied Jewish books from five centuries, including over 30 haggadot from around the world
• Jewish National and University Library National Sound Archives - streaming and downloadable recordings of Jewish songs in several Jewish languages
• Jewish Web Index - Jewish geneology information
• Lingua Franca Website - about a pidgin trade language of the Mediterranean, which has some Jewish roots
• Learn Hebrew Verbs
• Learn Hebrew with Pictures and Audio
• MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
• Newsletter for Targumic & Cognate Studies
• SemArch - Semitisches Tonarchiv
• UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages in Europe
• World of Yiddish
• Yiddish Dictionary Online