In one of the world’s earliest Yiddish comics, created by Samuel Zagat in 1912, Gimpel the Matchmaker strides ahead while ...

Chinese professor and Yiddish scholar Meng Yang is visiting Stanford where she’ll discuss antisemitism in China.

(New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky teaches for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Workers Circle, he begins by asking students to explain why they decided to ...

The Jewish Theological Seminary dips into its archives to show the political and cultural ferment of Jewish immigrants. And then there is the granddaddy (or should we say zayde) of them all, the ...

In the summer of 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — ...

The linguistics major discovered his interest in Yiddish poetry through his coursework at Brandeis. After taking Yiddish courses with professor Ellen Kellman, Bernstein continued to pursue his ...

Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.

The Spokane Public Library has been selected as one of 40 libraries in the nation to participate in the Yiddish Book Center's ...

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...

(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...

Under Joel Grey's direction and performed in Yiddish, "Fiddler on the Roof" is the first big hit for Stage 42, formerly the Little Shubert. Matthew Murphy The biggest little hit in town right now is ...