Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe

This map shows the birthplaces of the survivors whose testimonies appear in the CSYE. Clicking on a point will pull up the survivor’s name and a link to his or her testimony page. More information is available in the Notes section below.

Notes

To search for a testimony by survivor name or birthplace, click on the search icon () in the upper-left corner of the map.

The base map shows current political borders and place names in English. Superimposed on this map are historical state borders from different points in time (1886–2019), which are adapted from the CShapes 2.0 dataset.¹ By default, the map shows the borders from January 1, 1920. To change the date, simply click on the timeline at the bottom of the map.

The historical state borders are an optional “layer” that can be enabled or disabled using the layers button () in the upper-right corner. The map also contains several other layers:

• Yiddish dialects: The approximate boundaries of the major Yiddish dialects are based on Katz (1983:1023) and were provided to us by Dr. Lea Schäfer. Labels are shown only for Western Yiddish and the major areas of Eastern Yiddish (NEY, CY, and SEY).
• LCAAJ informants: This layer includes points for each of the informants in the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) whose audio recording is available on the Columbia University Libraries website.
• Scanned map, 1922 (Yiddish): This historical map in Yiddish comes from Yitskhok Kadushin’s Geografisher atlas (1922). This is a scanned paper map that has been digitally georectified, which may result in some inaccuracies in location positions.
• Poland, 1897 and 1931: These maps of administrative districts in Poland come from the MPIDR Population History GIS Collection.²

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