Yiddish

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

"The Zone of Interest,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, never shows the inside of the camp’s operations.

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
29/12/2023

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

Ruth Seymour will also be remembered as a trailblazer in public radio’s embrace of digital platforms.

By JON KALISH/JTA
27/12/2023

'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review

The author took on the role of the memorial candle with devotion, and as she grew up became determined to learn everything she could about her lost cousins, especially her cousin Franya.

By MIRIAM KATES LOCK
18/11/2023

Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit

How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
30/09/2023

Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.

By GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN/JTA
06/09/2023

NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'

Israel's official X account called the writer who bashed Hebrew "Meshuggeneh [crazy person]."

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

Although raised Catholic, Pancur felt an affinity with the Yiddish musical culture that thrived for centuries across Europe before its devastation by the Holocaust.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
23/08/2023

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

As queerness is increasingly persecuted in the United States, Yiddish culture has been my refuge: a culture with no country that is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs.

By NOA BARON/JTA
21/07/2023

The way it really was! Some faces and facets of Yiddish humor

In Hebrew, Yiddish humor has found a different creativity. But within it, the castigation of hypocrisy and the sardonic wit, evolved and different, still sparkle.

How can you define Jewish humor? - opinion

Defining Jewish humor, Israeli humor, Yiddish humor, and where they differ and overlap.

By PESSY KRAUSZ
30/06/2023
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