Universal Yiddish Library (UYL) is a digital crossroads uniting four institutions: the Yiddish Book Center, the National Library of Israel, YIVO, and the New York Public Library. Our mission is to open up the rich, vibrant world of Yiddish literature to a global audience, transcending geographical boundaries and uniting Yiddish enthusiasts from all corners of the world.
Digital Yiddish Library | Yiddish Book Center or the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library houses 12,000 titles. This comprehensive collection includes works of fiction, memoirs, poetry, plays, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more, by the most renowned Yiddish authors and lesser-known writers alike. To date, those titles have been downloaded an astonishing 1.6 million times. You can browse highlights from the collection below, or search by a specific author. Read the books online or download them, free of charge.
ULY – Union List of Yiddish – a project still in the making, is a joint effort of four institutions with substantial Yiddish collection, YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research), YBC (Yiddish Book Center), NYPL (New York Public Library) and the National Library of Israel. The goal in this project is to create a full catalog of Yiddish publications, allow one search and link back to the different institutions and add a link to a digital copy where possible.
Digital Yiddish Theatre Project [DYTP] is dedicated to studying the rich legacy of the Yiddish stage from its origins to the present day. Founded in 2012 by Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan, the DYTP is an international group of scholars who are among the world’s leading authorities on Yiddish theatre and drama.
The DYTP is a digital publication platform that explores the cultural, linguistic, and geographic complexity of the Yiddish theatre. We publish on Yiddish drama and performance, including original scholarship, theatre reviews, interviews, plot synopses, and translations from primary sources. We write for a wide range of readers, including researchers, theatre practitioners, students, teachers, translators, and the general public.
In addition to our original scholarship, the resources the DYTP offers include:
Yiddish Music in the New York Public Library the music collection is part of the larger Yiddish language sources collection at NYPL.