Brandeis, historically a bastion of Jewish education, planned to put its Yiddish program "on hiatus" — until the Yiddish ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Yiddish writer's lost masterpiece, Sons and Daughters, brought back to life, in all its humor and beauty, the Jewish ...

NEW YORK — Between 1881 and 1914, 2 million Yiddish-speaking Jews decamped from their European homelands and replanted themselves in America. Most settled in the concrete and brick wilderness of ...

And in the realm of Yiddish letters, it has come to mean retelling the story of the megillah — often with outrageously funny distortions — in rhyming verse (gramen) rather than staid prose ...

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 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.

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

Chabad rabbi Mordechai Lightstone was pleasantly surprised to find Yiddish newspapers in the walls of his 100-year-old Brooklyn home.

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 ...