Salon Jewish Studies Blog

The website literatur-des-judentums.de offers public access to the digitized collection of Yiddish prints that belongs to the Frankfurt University Library as part of their special collection "Judaism". The Yiddish collection contains about 800 Yiddish books printed in Wester, Central and Eastern Europe with dates range from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. This body includes women's bibles in Yiddish translation, liturgy, practical guide books, works on religious customs, legends, chronicles and fiction from East European Yiddish authors. [Languages: English and German]