Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...
The Forward on MSN

Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere

It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera about Yiddish. But on September 18 and 21, “The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish ...

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...
Mashable

Botnets are zombie armies and other helpful analogies from Alphabet's new Chrome extension

Google's parent company is trying to make complex tech jargon easier to understand. Alphabet's Jigsaw group launched a new project called Sideways Dictionary, which uses wacky analogies to explain ...
Fast Company

Alphabet Built An Urban Dictionary For Tech Jargon

Compare that to a top-ranking definition for DDoS attack on Sideways, a new website that clearly defines complex technology terms, created by Alphabet’s Jigsaw in collaboration with the Washington ...

Can You Guess the Most Common Letters in the English Language?

Can you spot our anomaly? And if you do, can you say what it is without spoiling it? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face, or the cream in your coffee, or the vowels in your alphabet. The ...
The New York Times

Here Is an Alphabet and a Dictionary from Which the Ignorant Can Learn Good Manners; It Is Not Every One Who Knows How to Feed Animals or How to Touch a Baron, But Here Is the ...

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The Times of Israel

At NY’s YIVO, a legendary unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...