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 ...

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

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 ...