The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

For each text, I design activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.

If Yiddish has a future on college campuses, it may literally go unspoken. In Yiddish studies programs across the country, a new generation of scholars are learning Yiddish as a language of ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...

A memorandum on the Yiddish language, its origin and present status, is being prepared by the famous Jewish philologist, Dr. Judah A. Joffe, according to an announcement by the Committee for Yiddish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline ...

“Fiddler on the Roof,” the beloved musical that debuted on Broadway in 1964, will have a Yiddish-language adaptation produced by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, the theater company has ...

As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...

Nikolai Borodulin once had only a faint connection to his Yiddish heritage — ironic for someone born in the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. But now, 55 years later, Borodulin is ...

The Yiddish language is sabotaged by he Soviet authorities, charges a writer in the “Emes,”Moscow Yiddish Communist daily. The writer, Matz, cites instances in Nevel, Velizh and other towns in the ...