Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe

Testimonies Index

The CSYE currently contains 251.7 hours of transcribed recordings from 141 testimony interviews (539 tapes). Of these, 32.8 hours of transcripts (72 tapes) have been reviewed and are available in both the Yiddish alphabet and Latin transliteration. The remaining transcripts are available only in Latin transliteration. Please return here to find the latest additions to the corpus.

  Survivor Interview # City of Birth
David Rudnick (thumbnail) David Rudnick 25657 Medininkai (מעדניק)
Jacob Ruppo (thumbnail) Jacob Ruppo 1012 Dzisna (דיסנע)
Tuvia Sardenitzkas (thumbnail) Tuvia Sardenitzkas 19266 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Wolf Scheinberg (thumbnail) Wolf Scheinberg 14495 Warsaw (װאַרשע)
Eva Schlesinger (thumbnail) Eva Schlesinger 39379 Hajdúhadház (האַדאַס)
Élsa Schwartz (thumbnail) Élsa Schwartz 43032 Újfehértó (ראַצפֿערט)
Dora Shapiro (thumbnail) Dora Shapiro 29742 Švenčionys (סװענציאַן)
Ela Shapiro (thumbnail) Ela Shapiro 23518 Zalepūgai (זאַלעפּוגײַ?)
Avraham Sherman (thumbnail) Avraham Sherman 34929 Opatów (אַפּט)
Leon Sherman (thumbnail) Leon Sherman 28234 Ćmielów (טשעמעלעװ)