Yiddish Books Online at Internet Archive and NYBC

Over ten thousand Yiddish texts, estimated as over 1/2 of all the published works in Yiddish, are now online based on the work of the National Yiddish Book Center, volunteers, and the Internet Archive.The literature of a people is being made available free to the world.

While some of the rights issues may be unclear, this collection has been greeted enthusiastically during the years it was available for print-on-demand. This community may offer a model for how non-profit libraries can support culture online. The Internet Archive would like to see more non-profit libraries offering complete collections to support communities that may be geographically distributed.

The Internet Archive now has a right-to-left book reader, and we’re working to ease importing of existing digital collections.

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