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 ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. So, do you spell it schlep or shlep? And ...

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

NEW YORK — Yiddish was the language spoken by Tevye the milk peddler and the other shtetl characters depicted in the stories that inspired “Fiddler on the Roof,” yet in this country the landmark ...

Onomatopoeia. It’s a long word with an easy definition – it describes other real or made up words that imitate the sound or action the word refers to. An example of the former would be “boom,” an ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

At the end of the 19th century, a young woman chose, against her mother’s wishes, to become an actress. She ended up becoming the most popular Yiddish actress of all time. Today, even those people who ...

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In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...