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

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.

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

This article previously appeared in Yiddish. Right now at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris, France, Yiddish is taking ...

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 ...

Texas is also home to another deep-rooted yet marginalized language: Yiddish. Beyond New York The golden age of Yiddish in Texas began in 1907 with an initiative to redirect the flow of Ashkenazi ...

Rather, they were speaking Yiddish, a language spoken by few Swedes but increasingly cherished by many. The Yiddish version of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist play, translated by Shane Baker ...