Born to Christian parents, historian Lasha Shakulashvili was stunned to find Yiddish theater posters in Georgia’s national ...

One of the most popular courses at New Lehrhaus, the Berkeley-based Jewish learning institute, uses a novel approach to understanding the Talmud: “Seinfeld.” “Whatever excites somebody’s curiosity is ...

“I want to change the way I wear my shoes,” Brooklyn-based Yiddishist and musician Ira Khonen Temple sings on the first track on their debut album, “Strange Tongue/Mistame Loshn.” “But I don’t wanna ...

Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...

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Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.

The Soraya will open its 2025–26 season with a special concert production of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish with English supertitles. Directed by Academy and Tony ...

Ikh bin geboyrn gevorn Passaic, New Jersey. “I was born in Passaic, New Jersey.” Those were the first words Dr. Hank Levine learned in Yiddish in an in-person group way back in 1975. One can forgive ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...