Yirmiyahu Danzig (aka @that_semite on Instagram and @Unpacked on YouTube), an Israeli Jewish rights and anti-racism activist ...

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...

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, ...

During one of his visits as a clandestine “Nativ” emissary to the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, my father encountered an elderly Jew who quoted whole sections of the Bible and the Gemara by heart.

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

Ka’s music steers clear of nostalgia. She speaks with playful candor about her dislike of traditional klezmer, preferring ...

For Rakhmiel Peltz, a professor emeritus of sociolinguistics and founding director of Judaic studies at Drexel University, a realization led him to conclude that the switch he made within the world of ...

In his quest to become the first Muslim mayor of the city that is home to the largest Jewish community in the United States, ...

Mikhl Yashinsky's translation of the Max Spitzkopf stories offers a glimpse at the popular reading of Jews in the early 20th ...

Unlike his opponents in the New York City mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani has offered perspectives on Israel, Zionism, and ...