One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...
Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. At the end of the 19th century, a young ...
A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its ...
Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...
Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.
Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.
In English medical vocabulary Greek words, Latin words, and hybrid combinations contribute about 76% of the total. In ...
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László Krasznahorkai, whose family hid Jewish roots during Holocaust, wins literature Nobel
Decades later, Krasznahorkai gave the name Korin to the doomed archivist who narrates his 1999 novel War and War — turning ...
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Yiddish offers a moral vocabulary for our times
(RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching old clips from “Saturday Night Live.” One of my favorites is Mike Myers as Linda Richman, which is apparently a loving tribute to his mother-in-law, ...
The movie played its U.S. theatrical premiere at Movies of Delray in December and will return for its last American theater showings Oct 10 to 17.
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