The Yiddish Orthographic Conference which is now in session in Vilna under the auspices of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, has after a heated debate decided by 26 votes against 21 for changing the ...

The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

The Education Commission of the Latvian Parliament yesterday decided to recognize Yiddish and Hebrew as the national Jewish languages and as the languages of compulsory instruction in Jewish schools.

A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) CORAL SPRINGS, Fla ...

In the mid-20th century in South Philadelphia, gaggles of Jewish children, many of whom were children of Holocaust survivors or refugees, flocked to Sunday schools around the city where they’d learn ...

Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment. His drama Faust opens with a scene ...

In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...

Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer By Isaac Bashevis Singer Buy this book Singer and his Yiddish readers shared the uncanny experience of being the last bearers of a ...