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American Memory Collection - The Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has a vast Web site called the American Memory Collection that includes exhibitions of the Variety Stage and WPA Life Histories.

Cambridge University Cholent Society - For those of you who wonder whether the Internet really has anything batampte, anything geshmack, anything worthwhile takeh, the Cambridge University Jewish Society presents the Cambridge University Cholent Society Web page. Ot Azoy, es vet zayn an England alleh mol.

Déchiffrer l'hébreu - Info on using Hebrew on the Web, in French.

Earth Words - Select a language to start the language quiz.

Hebrew Internet, Communication and BBS support - Setting up Hebrew software for UNIX and PC and other information.

Hebrew Tutorial Language Lessons

Hebrew U Info System FAQ help file - Information on how to set up Hebrew fonts for the Mosaic Web browser may be found at the bottom of the Hebrew U Info System FAQ help file. This FAQ describes PC's and UNIX/X.

Hebrew on the Net - Snunit (the Israeli English Teacher's Network) at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has an extensive doc describing use of Hebrew on the Internet.

How to Get Hebrew Capabilities - Shai Geva at CMU has information on displaying Hebrew text with UNIX/X and the Xmosaic Web browsers and other UNIX software.

Internet RFC 1555 - Information about the representation of Hebrew text on the Internet.

Jewish Yiddish Hebraic Hebrew

Rabbi Burns Night - Rabbi Burns Night at the University of Edinburgh's Jewish Society.

Reading Hebrew on the Web using Netscape - Displaying Hebrew Text with MS/Windows

The Hebrew HOW TO - This `Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) / HOWTO document describes how to configure your Linux machine to use Hebrew characters on X-Windows and Virtual Consoles. The most up-to-date version of the Hebrew-HOWTO may be obtained from my Web page or from ftp://hobbes.jct.ac.il.

Travlang - Travlang has some great translation dictionaries, but not Hebrew, however, they do have tutorial language lessons in Hebrew, among others.

Variety Stage - The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings, and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future.

Virtual Shtetl - Visit the Virtual Shtetl, the Yiddish Language and Culture Web site at the University of North Carolina.

WPA Life Histories - These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.

Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring - The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring fosters Jewish identity and American Yiddish Culture.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation of the Eastern European Jewish heritage.

Yiddish Culture Web Links - Toronto's Ashkenaz Yiddish Culture Festival page also keeps a list of Yiddish culture Web links.

Yiddish Web Resources - Mark David has pointers to Yiddish Web resources at his Yiddish Voice page.