The Yiddish Book Center will host its annual Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture on Saturday, June 8 at 2 p.m., featuring Aaron Lansky, the center’s founder and longtime president. In […] ...

In an online lecture in Yiddish, Jan Schwarz, a Yiddish literature scholar at Lund University, will explain this development ...

To hear what this land really sounds like, go to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation ...

There are many restaurants along its three-block length — 63 by my count — running from Third Avenue’s Cooper Square to ...

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...

Shimmy Braun started writing Faygele (the Yiddish term for a homophobic slur also starting with ‘f’), his autobiographical ...

Philadelphia was the birthplace of Bread and Freedom, a weekly anarchist paper published by Jewish immigrants who felt their ...

Jews around the world sit down at their Passover table and retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. To tell stories and ...

Since 85% of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust spoke Yiddish, including their language in a Holocaust ...

We who can read our Bibles in English are blessed with a variety of translations — many of them with very high quality standards — far beyond what readers of any other language can access. In fact, ...

The minister responsible for French in Quebec says the province's language watchdog will, from now on, ignore complaints related to the use of English in the phrase "Go! Habs Go!" The Montreal ...