This story, which is translated from the Yiddish, is the second in a series of Yiddish holiday tales for children that will run throughout 5785. Read the original Yiddish text on page 24 of this ...

One Penn professor hopes to bring more chutzpah to the study of women Yiddish writers. Professor of Germanic languages Kathryn Hellerstein has spent much of her academic career focusing on Yiddish ...

Since about the 1970s, a new and largely, what the historian Jeffrey Shandler terms, a “post-vernacular Yiddish culture” has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. — Friends of Yiddish has no agenda. No textbooks. No grammar rules. Its members gather monthly at the B'nai Tikvoh-Sholom synagogue to speak a language stamped in their hearts and ...

Karolina Kašeová doesn’t consider herself an artist. But her growing number of admirers, particularly among Yiddish enthusiasts, would disagree. She’s known for her vibrant and original Yiddish ...

Until recently, it seemed you could find Yiddish books only in obscure libraries or the attic of someone´s grandparents. But this week, Yiddish became one of the most accessible literatures on earth.

A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen ...

In January, the religion writer and memoirist Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction for his début novel, “Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter” (Free Press), the story of the life ...

Thousands of doorhangers written in Yiddish and English and distributed in Rockland County about the measles outbreak may have created some mistrust in the Hasidic community. The New York State ...