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

VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, ...

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

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: What makes a horror movie horrifying, and how does that change when the ...

A resurgence in the Yiddish language and an increased tempo in Jewish cultural activities has become “a national trend” in the United States, Joseph Mlotek, educational director of the Workmen ...

LearnedLeague, a web-based, invitation-only global quiz league with over 28,000 members worldwide, recently featured the ...

But what matters is the spirit of the thing. The English language is under not the slightest threat in America, and providing ...

New podcast Cockney Yiddish explores this rich history with a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship. One minute, we're ...

But why “tush” instead of “tukhes”? That has its own backstory. YIVO, a leading authority on the Yiddish language, spells the word “tukhes” instead of “tuchus” because Americans ...