(RNS) — Forget about shpilkes and shlepping. Yiddish contains moral weight. (RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching ...

Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost civilization.

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II.

One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

Explore the fascinating story behind The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a new chamber opera celebrating YIVO’s ...

The beloved singer-songwriter shares stories from her autobiography, 'Canaan Alley,' at poetry festival relocated from Metula to Jerusalem ...

(NPR and RNS) — A recently released album, ‘Lider Mit Palestine,’ features several artists and 17 original compositions — some modern, some mournful and all shaped by Yiddish and its history. (NPR and ...

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 ...