This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After years of work by a small team of linguists, computer programmers, and volunteer editors, visitors to the Yiddish Book Center’s website ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — “Fidler afn Dakh,” the Yiddish adaptation of “Fiddler on the Roof,” closed on Jan. 5 after a wildly successful 11-month run off-Broadway and an equally successful seven-month stint at ...

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 ...

The German Academy (Akademie zur wissenschaftlischen Erforschung und zur Pflege des Deutschtums) has published the draft programme of a projected Yiddish Section of its Near-Languages Institute. The ...

A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!" In English, the lyrics mean: "When the ...

In 1944, as the Nazi-backed Hungarian regime swept through Jewish homes in Budapest and beyond, the looting was not limited to silverware, paintings or jewelry. They also stole our language. Among the ...

Without even knowing it, we’ve all absorbed a set of intensely negative beliefs about Yiddish, and one successful show hasn’t changed that. And yet, when I recently stepped onto a stage and spoke ...