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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A scholar of Jewish languages argues that Trump's use of the Hebrew word meaning hello, goodbye and peace stokes antisemitism ...

It was at Action Comics that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two second-generation immigrants living in Cleveland, found a home ...

Five years later, the coronavirus pandemic may seem far away and foggy, or as visceral as yesterday. Here are some stories of ...