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Jewish Studies

Dictionaries and Lexicons

Lexicool
A directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet.
Morfix
Modern Hebrew-English dictionary and morphological-syntactic Hebrew search engine.
Abbreviations Dictionary (Modern Hebrew)
Spoken Hebrew Machine
Ladino Type
A transliteration engine for the Ladino (Judezmo) language, created by Brian Berman

Translation Sites

General

Berman Jewish Policy Archive Reader's Guide: Jewish Languages
A selection of BJPA holdings on the topics of Hebrew, Yiddish, and the larger questions of Jewish language and Jewish life.
Jewish Languages Research Website
Library of Electronic Books and Articles on Jewish Languages

America-Jewish

Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity
A large-scale survey of Jews and non-Jews in the United States done by Linguist Sarah Bunin Benor and Sociologist Steven M. Cohen.

Haquetía

Haquetía: Judeo-Spanish vernacular of Northern Morocco

Hebrew

Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

Ladino

Books in Yiddish

Yiddish Books Online
Full text of 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. The National Yiddish Book Center.
Yiddish Literature
A selection of Yiddish literary texts with short biographies. National Digital Library of Poland.
Yiddish Prints
800 Yiddish books from the Frankfurt University Library.

Periodicals and Newspapers

The Forward (Yiddish: Forverts)
An institution in American Jewish life.

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