YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.

Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always ...

Nu” is one of these Yiddish words that has various meanings, like a call for somebody to do something: “Nu? Come on!” But it ...

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

VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, ...

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

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state. At first sight, it appears that Hebrew has won and that, after the Holocaust ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated civilization pushes Grade into a biblical register. His mother’s home is ...

The Shvesters, originally from Michigan but with Israel their new home base, are hopping on the tour circuit to major cities in the United States.