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
Echyoshas Mosshovitchus (thumbnail) Echyoshas Mosshovitchus 37561 Kaunas (קאָװנע)
Genya Mutchnik (thumbnail) Genya Mutchnik 19453 Teplyk (טעפּליק)
Sholom Natanzon (thumbnail) Sholom Natanzon 33535 Căușeni (קאַושאַן)
Zigmund Neufeld (thumbnail) Zigmund Neufeld 14243 Warsaw (װאַרשע)
Khana Oifman (thumbnail) Khana Oifman 37845 Horodkivka (מעסקיװקע)
Raia Pesses (thumbnail) Raia Pesses 32365 Šiauliai (שאַװל)
Faiga Polak (thumbnail) Faiga Polak 38280 Tyachiv (טעטש)
Marek Popowski (thumbnail) Marek Popowski 27106 Warsaw (װאַרשע)
Etta Popugaeva (thumbnail) Etta Popugaeva 12203 Vilnius (װילנע)
Fanny Portnoy (thumbnail) Fanny Portnoy 29102 Vilnius (װילנע)