As one might surmise from its title, “Schmegoogle” is not a serious book. Subtitled “Yiddish Words for Modern Times,” it’s a pun-filled compendium that amusingly mashes up modern English with words ...

It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has, for the most part, ...

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 ...

There once was a place known as Yiddish Land. It wasn’t a country. In fact, it lived and breathed for a thousand years in total disregard for the invisible borders sovereign nations fought and died ...

When audience members start taking their seats to see Broadway's Indecent, the actors are already sitting at the back of the stage. Eventually, the lights go down and the performers begin a ghostly ...

This story originally appeared on Kveller. Way back in 1828, Noah Webster learned 28 languages in order to write his groundbreaking dictionary. But “kvell” was nowhere to be found among his 70,000 ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...

(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...