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
March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music
This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.
Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion
At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.
The timeless debate
The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras
A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory
This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.
Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace
The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.
Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie
There's has been a boom in the Jewish-themed horror realm in recent years.
On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival
Yiddish revival hits New York with Folksbiene.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool': The Jewish Don Quixote
The story of Gimpel, published after WWII, constitutes the repudiation of Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein’s understandable response to the Holocaust.
Grapevine December 16, 2022: Meaningful philanthropy
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
‘Far beispiel’: Yiddish as a first language
My father had told me to go on, to live life, and he did it in Yiddish, a Yiddish born in the lost towns of Eastern Europe and whose speakers learned to confront adversity with humor and insight.
