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 “A Tree ...

Re “Yiddish Is Having a Moment,” by Ilan Stavans (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): Every so often there appears to be a magical Yiddish sighting, usually by writers seeking to inform the world that ...

The Vilne-Yiddish model will allow anyone, no matter their language, to read historical handwritten Yiddish text ...

My father was a storyteller. I don’t mean that he told stories for a living or in a professional capacity of any kind, but rather that he knew how to tell a good story. And he took such conspicuous ...

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 18, ...

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

Rob Eshman is to be commended for raising the issue of the Occupy movement (“Occupy Ideas,” May 11). A Lexis/Nexis search reveals that media reports about income inequality “skyrocketed to 1,269 ...

Men of Letters Gather at ‘Day’ Celebration; Dr. Judah L. Magnes Defines Tasks of New Department The establishment of a chair for the study of the Yiddish language and literature at the Hebrew ...

As an octogenarian who is rounding the club-house turn to the finish line, I am astounded at the behavior of the leader of the free world. Every time he does not get what he wants nor hears what he ...

The supposed meaning of the word "divoc," which is COVID backwards, has spread online. The Claim It has been suggested that "divoc" is a Hebrew word that means "possession by an evil spirit." One post ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...