Yiddish
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review
Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility
Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion
The Ukrainian Jew who saved Yiddish music from oblivion
“Song Searcher” isa new documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, Jewish folklorist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930s and ’40s collecting Yiddish folk music and klezmer songs.
Grapevine February 13, 2022: No surprise
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
How it really was: Preparing for life in Israel
The year was 1948, the place was a 160-acre (624 dunam) farm on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario.
Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions
Popular word game 'Wordle' has become immensely popular, with over 2 million players posting their results online. Now developers have contributed Yiddish and Hebrew versions.
This New York City cantor is making modern Yiddish music that swings
In order to bring Yiddish musical theater into the world of jazz, Yisroel Leshes had to reinvent the genre.
YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research founded in Vilna before World War II and collected millions of Yiddish texts.
Yiddish copies of Christian Bible distributed in Rockland County, NY
Rockland County has a very dense ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, especially in places like Monsey and Spring Valley. The Yiddish copies of the New Testament are linked to missionary organizations.
Yiddish theater category on ‘Jeopardy!’ makes one contestant a rich(er) man
This week, the contestants are all college professors as part of the show’s first-ever professors tournament, and the host is Mayim Bialik.
Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production
The performances marked its debut in Sweden, and the first time ever that a play in Yiddish was staged at Sweden’s national theater company — the only home that its local backers considered.
French Jewish artist Chaim Soutine rediscovered in suitcase trove of letters
The forgotten legacy of Henri Serouya, historian, intellectual, philosopher, author of many acclaimed books and learned articles, all in French was found by the author in a suitcase in a basement.
