LYVA Resources by Dovid Katz
WELCOME to the Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA), which provides raw unedited footage of native living Lithuanian (/Litvish /Litvak /Northeastern) Yidd…
29 March 2022
Dovid Katz has created a remarkable video library on YouTube of his
interviews with Litvak Yiddish speakers about towns in Lithuania called
the Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive.
This month Professor Katz posted his 600th video. I’ve started an index
based on the titles of these videos (name of person interviewed and the
towns that an interviewee lived in). These interviews are probably rich with background information about life in Lithuania before World War II.
I have to say “probably” because I don’t speak Yiddish.
Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Atlanta, GA USA