Free Yiddish learning resources
15 free resources, checked and categorised.
No trials, no paywalls, no sign-up required.
Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study Yiddish: structured courses to build a foundation, dictionaries to look things up, and listening and reading material to spend real time in the language. Start with one course and one dictionary, then add listening once you can follow simple sentences.
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A Yiddish cultural dictionary.
Yiddish audio stories with transcription.
It is a site that allows you to download the Yiddish keyboard on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, and other systems. It works pretty well.
About the Yiddish language (you can also search for the Yiddish literature on the right).
This site is a company that collects and preserves books in Yiddish. They also sell books and have a large online selection of Yiddish books.
It is a site related to all things Yiddish. It is trying to preserve Yiddish and Yiddish culture. They also have resources.
Free books in Yiddish (well, there's only one for now).
This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.