This repository contains a dataset of known historical Yiddish newspapers and periodicals published in Germany. The list is based upon cataloguing and holding information from the libraries and book listed below. The list is provided as an Excel sheet and is a work in progress.
Currently the list contains 227 items, 21 of which are available in digitised form. URLs for the digitised periodicals are provided; the list also provides holding locations for the other periodicals but no direct links to their online catalog records.
Any comments and additions are most welcome, please get in touch via: gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu.
(URLs below point directly to the relevant search in the online catalogue. If no link is present the periodical was listed in: Marion Neiss' book Presse Im Transit, but cannot be located in an online catalogue (or no catalogue is present).
Germany:
- Compact Memory (CM)
- German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB)
- Center for Research on Antisemitism (CRA)
- Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB)
- Staatsbibliothek Berlin (STB)
- Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (IGdJ)
- Humboldt University Berlin (HUB)
- SUB Hamburg (SUB)
- Potsdam University (PU)
United States:
- Center for Jewish History (CJH)
- Leo Baeck Institute NY (LBI)
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO)
- New York Public Library (NYPL)
Israel:
- National Library of Israel (NLI)
- Historical Jewish Press (HJP)
- Shocken Library (SHO)
- Central Zionist Archives (CZA)
Gerben Zaagsma. “gerbenzaagsma/yiddish-periodicals-germany: Yiddish Periodicals in Germany - V1”. Zenodo, February 14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7640726.