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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 ...

(JTA) — Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...

Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always been home to linguistic diversity, starting with Indigenous languages like ...

“Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish” by Dovid Katz (Basic Books, $26.95). Given the sentimentality of much recent writing on the subject, American Jews might be forgiven for believing that ...

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

Actor Jackie Hoffman grew up hearing Yiddish, but not really speaking it. "I spoke what my mother calls kitchen Yiddish," Hoffman says — words here and there that she picked up from conversations ...