Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe

Testimonies Index

The CSYE currently contains 217.8 hours of transcribed recordings from 128 testimony interviews (463 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
Raḥel Bra´udah (thumbnail) Raḥel Bra´udah 28959 Vilnius (װילנע)
Fania Brancovskaya (thumbnail) Fania Brancovskaya 23147 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Rachela Braude (thumbnail) Rachela Braude 33567 Ashmyany (אָשמענע)
Esther Burekhovich (thumbnail) Esther Burekhovich 1227 Boronyava (באָראָניעװ)
Shmuel Bushkin (thumbnail) Shmuel Bushkin 34734 Riga (ריגע)
Meyir-Mano Daskal (thumbnail) Meyir-Mano Daskal 47019 Satu Mare (סאַטמער)
Freda Davidovitch (thumbnail) Freda Davidovitch 6715 Solotvyno (סאָלאָטװינע)
Aizik Dimantstein (thumbnail) Aizik Dimantstein 20327 Kārsava (קאָרסאָװקע)
Stanley Erps (thumbnail) Stanley Erps 8285 Crăciunești (קרעטשענעװ)
Fania Fainer (thumbnail) Fania Fainer 6010 Białystok (ביאַליסטאָק)