Brooklyn-based musician Ira Khonen Temple blends Yiddish, klezmer and trans experience — and is resonating with a new ...

Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included receiving a post-doc in ...

A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from ...

As a professional translator of Yiddish literature, I was surprised by the characterization of the Australian Jewish ...

Great for Hanukkah, 'The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City' by Henry H. Sapoznik is not your usual guidebook. In fact, many of the sites listed in it haven't existed for decades ...

Founded in 1980 by Aaron Lansky to rescue discarded Yiddish-language books, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst has become a world-renowned repository of Yiddish culture. Information: 413-637-3390 or ...

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they ...

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons, including a five-star run at the Sydney Opera House, Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish ...

This is not a typical language vlog. We chose a language deeply tied to Orthodox Jewish life - Yiddish - and used it to ...

New photos have been released of NIGHT STORIES, which comprises four tales of reanimation by Yiddish poet and resistance ...

A seasoned Jewish writer and Yiddish translator analyzes why "sparks flew" during the maestro's 80th birthday celebration at the Upper West Side's Beacon Theater.

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...