About the Project
This website is part of a major project undertaken within the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, to document and record a comprehensive history of the way of life and institutions of the Yiddish speaking immigrants who settled in Melbourne, and the values and outlook of their descendants.
Discover Yiddish Melbourne
- Introduction
- Biographies
- Organisations:
community organisations that actively promoted Yiddish - Community Service:
organisations in which Yiddish speakers were prominent - Education:
Yiddish in Sunday schools, day schools and tertiary institutions - Youth Group:
SKIF - Media and Creative Writing:
newspapers, journals and radio, poetry and prose
- Culture:
theatre and music - International Visitors:
Yiddish academics, actors, directors, singers and writers - Documents
- Memories:
oral histories, memoirs - Yiddish in the Ultra-orthodox Community Statistics:
- Bibliography
census and survey details
- About the Music:
lyrics and credits for music on this page
