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
Basia Tishmanene (thumbnail) Basia Tishmanene 18014 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Leia Tsalzon (thumbnail) Leia Tsalzon 17658 Švėkšna (שװעקשנע)
Yenkel Tzentziper (thumbnail) Yenkel Tzentziper 15735 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Yitshak Vaks (thumbnail) Yitshak Vaks 14108 Male Verbche (מאַלע־װערבטשע?)
Lea Vataru (thumbnail) Lea Vataru 21300 Lipcani (ליפּקאַן)
Khaya Vaynberg (thumbnail) Khaya Vaynberg 31067 Orhei (אוריִעװ)
Sofiah Viener (thumbnail) Sofiah Viener 29967 Chernivtsi (טשערנעװיץ)
Mariia Voronova (thumbnail) Mariia Voronova 17652 Kelmė (קעלעם)
Wolf Windman (thumbnail) Wolf Windman 22038 Częstochowa (טשענסטאָכאָװ)
Isaac Wise (thumbnail) Isaac Wise 36146 Vandžiogala (װענדזיגאָלע)