Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...
In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...
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 ...
In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...
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 ...
Nikolai Borodulin once had only a faint connection to his Yiddish heritage — ironic for someone born in the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. But now, 55 years later, Borodulin is ...
The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...
RICHMOND, Va. — An upcoming festival invites Richmonders of all backgrounds to explore Yiddish language and culture. Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one ...
There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and ...