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 ...

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 ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky teaches for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Workers Circle, he begins by asking students to explain why they decided to ...

For 11 teenagers, a recent Sunday brought a unique look at a language deeply rooted in their Jewish culture. The group listened intently as Jean Arin introduced them to Yiddish, the colorful language ...

When my dad was growing up in Leningrad in the former Soviet Union, he’d beat up the neighborhood kids for calling him a “zhyd”—a pejorative term for Jew that’s akin to “kike.” His flair for fighting ...

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 ...

Cornell’s first-ever cohort of Yiddish language learners have entered another semester of mastering alphabets and reading poetry written in the medieval Jewish tongue. The Jewish Studies Program ...

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 ...