Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...
Pittsburgh is gearing up to celebrate Yiddish culture with a vibrant lineup of upcoming events. Scheduled for Nov. 13-16, the ...
If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania ...
A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) CORAL SPRINGS, Fla ...
Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
Re “Yiddish Is Having a Moment,” by Ilan Stavans (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): Every so often there appears to be a magical Yiddish sighting, usually by writers seeking to inform the world that ...
Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday ...
Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo clashed sharply over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Thursday night, in the first ...
The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...
An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her ...