My grandpa Harry fell in love with my grandma Lil at an anti-war meeting. As he told the story of their first date years later: “I asked her: ‘Would you take a walk with me?’ It was in the evening, a ...

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 ...