A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) CORAL SPRINGS, Fla ...
Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...
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 ...
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Why the Forward has launched a Yiddish podcast
In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...
Cornell’s first-ever cohort of Yiddish language learners have entered another semester of mastering alphabets and reading poetry written in the medieval Jewish tongue. The Jewish Studies Program ...
Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...
Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...
Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.
The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...
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 ...
It’s been over a year since the beloved Yiddish activist, and a personal friend of mine, Bella Bryks Klein passed away in Petah-Tikvah, Israel at the age of 75. Those who knew her miss her warmth, ...
The linguist’s celebration of the polyglot city inspires a series of shows at Manhattan’s Little Island. Years before “The Power Broker” started appearing on the shelves of every journalist giving a ...
NEW YORK — Yiddish was the language spoken by Tevye the milk peddler and the other shtetl characters depicted in the stories that inspired “Fiddler on the Roof,” yet in this country the landmark ...
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