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.

In "Simkhe Plakhte: From 'Folklore' to Literary Artefact," the author Yankev Morgenshtern of Lodz (1820-1890) created the comic hero Simkhe Plakhte in a chapbook published circa 1880.

Gov. Chris ChristieAP File Photo Christie’s lack of empathy If Gov. Chris Christie’s child were in need of medical marijuana for relief from a disease similar to Vivian Wilson’s (&#8220 ...

The fact that Dr. Max Nordau, famous author and Zionist leader, wrote in Yiddish, came to light recently when Ben-Zion Yudkovichi, Zionist worker of Paris, presented a number of documents relating ...

The Yiddish language, which has amassed a cornucopia of wisdom and words in its thousand-year life, is nearly halfway inscribed in its own book of life, the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish ...

The eighty-first anniversary of the birth of Isaac Leibush Peretz, Yiddish poet and dramatist, is now being celebrated in Jewish literary circles throughout the world. He was born in Poland on May ...