Yiddish
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
Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility
Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion
The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’
"The Zone of Interest,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, never shows the inside of the camp’s operations.
Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88
Ruth Seymour will also be remembered as a trailblazer in public radio’s embrace of digital platforms.
'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review
The author took on the role of the memorial candle with devotion, and as she grew up became determined to learn everything she could about her lost cousins, especially her cousin Franya.
Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit
How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?
Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion
At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.
NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'
Israel's official X account called the writer who bashed Hebrew "Meshuggeneh [crazy person]."
Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54
Although raised Catholic, Pancur felt an affinity with the Yiddish musical culture that thrived for centuries across Europe before its devastation by the Holocaust.
How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer
As queerness is increasingly persecuted in the United States, Yiddish culture has been my refuge: a culture with no country that is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs.
The way it really was! Some faces and facets of Yiddish humor
In Hebrew, Yiddish humor has found a different creativity. But within it, the castigation of hypocrisy and the sardonic wit, evolved and different, still sparkle.
How can you define Jewish humor? - opinion
Defining Jewish humor, Israeli humor, Yiddish humor, and where they differ and overlap.
