I was telling some friends recently that my newly adopted dog is such a nudnik in the mornings. They stared at me blankly. "A ...

A rag-tag group of younger adults have rediscovered the West Germanic language and culture for heritage and politics.

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It's the ...

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, ...

The linguistics major discovered his interest in Yiddish poetry through his coursework at Brandeis. After taking Yiddish courses with professor Ellen Kellman, Bernstein continued to pursue his ...

Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.

In 2013, a pamphlet of songs, written in Yiddish, was discovered among the belongings of Sydney-based Polish woman “Olga R”.

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, ...

Though the Swiss born actor-singer-dancer often performs in Yiddish, her latest song is about chasing her dreams in the Big Apple. (New York Jewish Week) — One-of-a-kind Jewish musician Lea Kalisch, a ...

The Soraya will open its 2025–26 season with a special concert production of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish with English supertitles. Directed by Academy and Tony ...

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: What makes a horror movie horrifying, and how does that change when the film ...