The Yiddish Orthographic Conference which is now in session in Vilna under the auspices of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, has after a heated debate decided by 26 votes against 21 for changing the ...

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 ...

The Education Commission of the Latvian Parliament yesterday decided to recognize Yiddish and Hebrew as the national Jewish languages and as the languages of compulsory instruction in Jewish schools.

A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) CORAL SPRINGS, Fla ...

In the mid-20th century in South Philadelphia, gaggles of Jewish children, many of whom were children of Holocaust survivors or refugees, flocked to Sunday schools around the city where they’d learn ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...

(JTA) — In April, the language-learning app Duolingo added its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish. A couple of decades ago, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream non-Jewish ...

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 ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

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The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival drew a full house at the Laemmle Town Center in Encino for a sold-out screening of the ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...