The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

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 ...

In April 2020, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do for the many people who felt isolated, unable to go to work or to see their ...

This is a revised translated version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. One sunny day in spring 2021 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — An upcoming festival invites Richmonders of all backgrounds to explore Yiddish language and culture. Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one ...

The city, once home to thousands of Jewish refugees, will be one of the first places in East Asia where the songs are brought ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline ...

The German Academy (Akademie zur wissenschaftlischen Erforschung und zur Pflege des Deutschtums) has published the draft programme of a projected Yiddish Section of its Near-Languages Institute. The ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

The Yiddish language is sabotaged by he Soviet authorities, charges a writer in the “Emes,”Moscow Yiddish Communist daily. The writer, Matz, cites instances in Nevel, Velizh and other towns in the ...