When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...

As Greek language courses vanish and fluency declines among younger generations in Australia, is Greek on the brink of ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

The upheaval at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which has seen the organization’s president and members of its board ...

The Shvesters, originally from Michigan but with Israel their new home base, are hopping on the tour circuit to major cities ...

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on ...

Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the ...

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express ...

The creators even hired members of the Antwerp Jewish community, non-actors, to provide authentic local flavor ...

Russian is traditionally the dominant language of Odessa, as in many other parts of Ukraine. But over the last three years, ...

Growing up, Rabbi Zach Golden didn’t want to be a rabbi at “a normal shul.” It was more than just talk: he founded Der Nister ...