Many people today prize the Yiddish of native speakers who grew up in Eastern Europe before World War II, viewing it as a ...

Thomas Soxberger was born in 1965 in Lower Austria. He moved to Vienna to study History and Jewish Studies. In the early 1990s Thomas participated in Yiddish Summer Programmes in Oxford. 1998-2000 – ...

On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM ET, the Boston-based radio show Dos Yidishe Kol (The Yiddish Voice) will air its interview with Avrom Novershtern, professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

(JTA) — Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great ...

In a candid interview with Tim Teeman, the Oscar-, Tony-, and Golden Globe-winning Joel Grey talks sexuality, winding down his stage career, and his Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ Senior Editor and ...