Yiddish language - one of the Indoeuropean languages (Germanic group), spoken and literary language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It was formed during the 10th - 14th centuries on the basis of Upper German dialects that became influenced by Hebrew and later Slavic languages. The number of Jews in Russia is 536,8 thousand (including 8,9 thousand in the Jewish autonomous region). 8,9 % of them regard "their ethnic language" as their mother tongue, 90,5 % Russian.

Yiddish uses the traditional Hebrew script that has been adapted to its phonetic system.

• Andrey Bredshtein's home page - Information on Yiddish periodicals, classic Jewish poetry, proverbs etc. (in Yiddish and Russian)
• Shtetl - Yiddish languge and culture
• Forverts - Weekly newspaper in Yiddish and English
• Understanding Yiddish information processing