At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

A coalition of strictly religious Jews and progressive, secular, and young Jews have been drawn to the language.

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s ...

No, you’re not seeing double. Clad in matching outfits, Yiddish singing duo The Shvesters (Yiddish for “The Sisters”) ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

In the history of Jewish music, female duos are rare; Jewish female duos singing in the Yiddish language are rarer still. Not ...

The creators even hired members of the Antwerp Jewish community, non-actors, to provide authentic local flavor ...

The Eagles just call it first down. The play itself is a modern update, and its name carries a legacy as well that stretches back much further — to Yiddish, to Jewish comedy and to one of the ...

Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world. By Joseph Berger Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English ...