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 ...
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. It’s 1945, three years before 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 ...
Yiddish Language to Drop Hebrew Form of Writing Its Hebrew Elements: Decision Adopted After Heated D
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 ...
One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...
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 ...
Barbara Krasnoff is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. She can be ...
Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. This article originally appeared in the ...
The film that put Yiddish cinema on the map nearly 60 years ago is getting a rare public showing next Sunday at Cinespace in Hollywood. Avada, a project of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, an organization ...
Nikolai Borodulin once had only a faint connection to his Yiddish heritage — ironic for someone born in the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. But now, 55 years later, Borodulin is ...
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