Yiddish

March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.

By JON KALISH/JTA
04/03/2023

Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion

At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.

25/02/2023

The timeless debate

The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras

Shtetl in Poland

A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
06/02/2023

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace

The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA
04/02/2023

Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie

There's has been a boom in the Jewish-themed horror realm in recent years.

By STEPHEN SILVER/JTA
14/01/2023

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

Yiddish revival hits New York with Folksbiene.

By JON KALISH/JTA
05/01/2023
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