As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...

YiddishPOP, a free animated Yiddish language learning tool that has drawn much praise since its launch in June 2024, is now offering $500 grants to schools who use the program. Each episode in this ...

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 ...

Students participating in the Helix Project perform a Yiddish song at a home in Studio City. If you ask American Jews, or really just most Americans, to picture what it was like to live as a Jew in ...

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(New York, N.Y.)— Is your dog meshugena or a mensch? Find this out on May 20 when the Workmen’s Circle presents Yiddish for Dogs, where you’ll learn how to communicate with your canines in Yiddish.

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...

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 ...