List of Yiddish Letters and Sounds
From UIC Yiddish webpages, a chart of the Yiddish alphabet with pronunciation guide.
http://www.uic.edu/classes/lith/lith520/Yiddish%20Alphabet.pdf
Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies
Digitized vocal recordings of Yiddish in a variety of accents taken
from over 6000 hours of recorded Yiddish from native speakers.
Interactive site with sound. Sponsored by Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und
Halbach Foundation, Essen, Germany; The federal state of
Nordrhein-Westfalia paticular Ministery of Education and Research of
Nordrhein-Westfalia,The Commission of the European Union, Brussels;
MAKROLOG Company, Wiesbaden, Germany; Association of Yiddish Language
and Culture, Düsseldorf, Germany.
http://www.eydes.org/eydes.htm
LCAAJ Collection of Spoken Yiddish
(Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry)
consists of 5,755 hours of audio tape field interviews with Yiddish
speaking informants collected between 1959 and 1972 and ca. 100,000
pages of accompanying linguistic field notes. The data that constitutes
the LCAAJ was collected from 603 locations in Central and Eastern
Europe carefully chosen to reflect the distribution of the Yiddish
speaking population on the eve of World War II. In a series of
interviews lasting anywhere from 2.5 to 16 hours, informants answered
questions on a wide variety of topics concerning Yiddish language and
culture. Located at Butler Library, Columbia University.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/lcaaj/
