The new Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle unlocks the joys and sorrows of the Jewish past, writes Chana’s grandson. (JTA) — When I was younger, my family sang Yiddish ...

Yiddish writers in the early 20th century were deeply concerned about American racist violence and represented it frequently in both journalistic and artistic ways, writes Jessica Kirzane. (JTA) — My ...

If you are Jewish, were from a first or second-generation immigrant family, and lived in Brooklyn, you were surrounded by Yiddish. Yiddish is the much-derided polyglot language of the central and ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Growing up in New York in the 1930s, Irene Weiser spent many happy days at the beach or the Russian baths in Coney Island. She sold knishes at the front counter of her ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The scenes were jarring, as intended, and meant to provoke fear: neo-Nazis parading in front of Disney World and crowding a highway bridge in Orlando, shouting antisemitic slurs, ...

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 ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When I ...