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

A newly translated memoir of the actress Esther Rachel Kamińska describes what Yiddish theater was like in the early 20th ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its ...

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...

Hebrew is the language of statehood—and also of study and prayer—yet the community we actually have is a polyphony stitched ...

But the chaos Moses names is not only cosmic. It is human. It is forgetting. “You forgot the Rock who gave you birth.” ...

The mural, named "Lay-lah Lay-lah," is a text-based collage by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson that represents the global ...

A government-approved, ideologically driven culture of consequences for disfavored speech will further erode the already ...