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 Lipis (thumbnail) Basia Lipis 10814 Novoselytsya (נאָװאָסעליץ)
Ely Litsky (thumbnail) Ely Litsky 23772 Białystok (ביאַליסטאָק)
Enia Luks (thumbnail) Enia Luks 17055 Mokobody (מאָנקעבאָד)
Ignatz Marmorosch (thumbnail) Ignatz Marmorosch 23201 Chernivtsi (טשערנעװיץ)
Ishaiagu Matusevich (thumbnail) Ishaiagu Matusevich 11342 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Icek Mekler (thumbnail) Icek Mekler 18804 Radom (ראָדעם)
Lazar Melamed (thumbnail) Lazar Melamed 24792 Vyshnivka (אָפּאַלין)
Simon Mensher (thumbnail) Simon Mensher 22290 Kosmach (קאָסמאַטש)
Dvorah Minin (thumbnail) Dvorah Minin 28443 Šiauliai (שאַװל)
Chana Moncharsh (thumbnail) Chana Moncharsh 28054 Opatów (אַפּט)