Librarian for Jewish and Israel Studies
Locally Published Yiddish Books
UCLA houses an abundance of locally published books in Yiddish. Those are listed below in a PDF. Many are also available digitally from the Yiddish National Book Center.
The UCLA Library also hundreds of Yiddish books published outline Los Angeles, available through the UCLA Library Catalog.
California Yiddish Periodicals at UCLA
The works below are locally-published Yiddish-language newspapers and journals available at UCLA. the Library also has a Bibliography of Yiddish Periodicals published by the Jewish Community Library of the Jewish Federation Council in 1958, which offers a comprehensive list of all locally-published Yiddish periodicals (see the link below).
- Khesbn (The Reckoning)edited by H. Rosenblaṭt, Y. Gridland, E. Ṭenenholts, Los Angeles, Yiddish Culture Club, 1946- . Also available online https://scalar.usc.edu/hc/recovering-yiddish-culture-in-los-angeles/khesbn-the-reckoning
- Kalifornier shriften: Devoted to Literature and Historio-social Studies on the Occasion of Jewish Life in California, 1854-1954ed. Sarah Fel-Yellin, Sh. Sekuler, H. Rothblatt, Chaim Schwartz, Los Angeles: Published by the Los Angeles Writers Society of the YKUF, 1955.
- Kalifornyer shriftn (periodical)Los Andzsheles, Ḳalifornye : Aroysgegebn fun Los Andzsheleser Idishn shrayber-fareyn baym Iḳuf; 1 (1955)-
- Kalifornier Yom-Tov Bleter (California Greetings Pages)vol. 1 no. 1 (Sept., 1955)
- Kalifornier Yidish lebn (California Jewish Life)Los Andzsheles : O. fg.; לאס אנדזשעלעס : אפ״ג; Vol. 1, no. 1 (Dec. 1950)-
- Los Andzsheles’er folks shrift (Los Angeles people’s journal)Los Andzsheles: Y. Blum, v.1:no.7(1949)
- Mayrev (West)issue no. 1 (Feb., 1925)
- Pasifik (Pacific)no. 1 (March, 1929) – no. 4 (Dec., 1929), Los Angeles: Pacific Cooperative Press, 1929. See also: https://scalar.usc.edu/hc/recovering-yiddish-culture-in-los-angeles/pasifik-pacific
- Zunland (Sunland)no. 1-6 (1925), Los Angeles: Sunland Publishing Co., 1925
External Links - Yiddish in Los Angeles
The following organizations offer additional resources for studying Yiddish culture in Los Angeles.
Other Yiddish Resources
- The Yiddish Daily ForwardYiddish/Russian
- Mendeleintroduction / Russian