Chinese professor and Yiddish scholar Meng Yang is visiting Stanford where she’ll discuss antisemitism in China.

“I’ve come to love Yiddish culture,” said a Lithuanian student, one of 40 who graduated from YIVO’s in-person summer program last week. When Tara Neuwirth arrived in New York City in June for six ...

(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 ...

The linguistics major discovered his interest in Yiddish poetry through his coursework at Brandeis. After taking Yiddish courses with professor Ellen Kellman, Bernstein continued to pursue his ...

In the summer of 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — ...

This is a revised version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. Di Tsukunft (The Future) A book of ...

"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language. (New York Jewish Week) — In ...

The preservation of Yiddish as a spoken language gets more attention, but Yiddish once had a vibrant written tradition as well. Plays, poetry, novels, political tracts — all were published in Yiddish ...

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...

For all its global pretensions, the Internet barely knows from languages. Only five percent of the world’s 7,000-plus languages have a robust presence online, according to a recent study, and digital ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — “Fidler afn Dakh,” the Yiddish adaptation of “Fiddler on the Roof,” closed on Jan. 5 after a wildly successful 11-month run off-Broadway and an equally successful seven-month stint at ...