For many years these letters were quietly lying dormant. First they were in my parent’s three-story walk up in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Their bedroom faced the street and gave proper homage to ...

The faux-Hebrew, she said, represented “part of the shift from Yiddish, which is written in Hebrew letters, to Polish and Russian and Czech and German and English and all the languages Jews ...

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.

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 ...

Yiddish letters got new life in children's books when "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat" by Simms Taback (Viking) garnered a Caldecott Medal as most distinguished picture book of last year. Based on ...

letters. Yiddish, Though Homeless, Survives. Sept. 14, 2023. Share full article. ... Yiddish is the language your parents spoke when they didn’t want you to comprehend what they were saying.

YIVO (the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, or Yiddish Scientific Institute) marks its 100th anniversary in 2025.

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.

I giggled when I read the headline “Smahta search” in the print edition of the Nov. 9 Business section. Glancing at it quickly, I read it as some version of “schmatte,” a Yiddish word ...

The Yiddish Book Center’s permanent exhibition offers much to kvell about, including a wide-ranging collection of volumes and tributes to Yiddish theater, music and history.