Yiddish
'The greatest light is concealed in the darkest places': reviving Yiddish songs
The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices; musicians are now bringing the songs of a lost civilization back to life
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Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
America did not begin in a single language - opinion
Could Jonas Phillips have imagined what this experiment called America would look like 250 years on?
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review
Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, struggle, and survival.
Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility
Vayikra’s message of purity, repentance, and unity teaches that even without sacrifices, we can draw closer to God and to one another.
Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion
Between daily life and existential threat, Israel is in an anxious twilight zone, with its citizens living without stability.
Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview
Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.
Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents
The child's parents, a haredi couple residing in Modi'in Ilit, were located on Monday morning and subsequently taken into questioning by police officers.
Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion
Leah’s legacy reminds us that renewal after October 7 will emerge from depth, resilience, and the quiet work of rebuilding from within.
Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock?
“Playing Shylock,” opening in Brooklyn, imagines the cancellation of Shakespeare’s controversial play about the humiliation of a Jewish moneylender.
At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word - as opera
"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language.
