Culture In the rarified world of Jewish letters, a mind-boggling font of Jewish history Faux-Hebrew text has become ubiquitous, but did it start out as something Jewish or antisemitic?

My grandmother's letters are often punctuated, not by dates, but by Jewish holidays and rumblings of war growing closer.

Responses to a guest essay about how Yiddish is having a bit of a revival. Also: America’s immigration system; the purpose of college; Republican hypocrisy.

Aaron Lansky is a man on a mission. And his quarter-century of dedication to finding and preserving Yiddish books has become a strikingly successful cultural rescue project. Lansky, founder of the … ...

The Yiddish writer's lost masterpiece, Sons and Daughters, brought back to life, in all its humor and beauty, the Jewish ...

Yiddish is written with Hebrew letters, but as for the Hebrew language as a whole, these communities use it only for prayer. For everything else, they use Yiddish.

In her quest to find her roots, North York resident Debbie Rose found a trove of hundred-year-old Yiddish letters that hold secrets of some radical Jewish anarchists.

Luminaries within the world of Yiddish letters like Ruth Wisse, a professor emerita at Harvard, and the writer Curt Leviant — who translated Singer and Aleichem and whose latest book is ...

In Yiddish and English, a single word—play, or shpil—refers both to recreational enjoyment and to theatrical performance. These two senses of shpil capture the essence of Purim, a holiday ...

But the paper’s most enduringly popular feature was the “Bintel Brief” -- literally, a “Bundle of Letters” -- in which immigrants adjusting to the New World posted their problems.

Submit a Letter to the Editor | Meet the Editorial Board LETTERS The joys of Yiddish Updated November 13, 2023, 2:00 a.m. Adobe Stock ...

Chabad rabbi Mordechai Lightstone was pleasantly surprised to find Yiddish newspapers in the walls of his 100-year-old Brooklyn home.