Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...

While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...

Berkeley's New Lehrhaus has brought L.A.'s Yiddishkayt, the largest Yiddish cultural institution in the West, under its wing.

The acclaimed Australian production 'Yentl' set for London premiere, promising a unique Yiddish experience from March 2026.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — our national birth certificate and mission ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

Some say that when the infamous Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky — born Lev Bronstein — lived in the Bronx at the beginning of the last century, he worked as a dishwasher in a beloved kosher eatery, ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.

On January 13, 2019, Yechiel Jaraz personally received a license to officially guide in Yiddish in Israel from Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. The traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews is, in ...

(NPR and RNS) — A recently released album, ‘Lider Mit Palestine,’ features several artists and 17 original compositions — some modern, some mournful and all shaped by Yiddish and its history. (NPR and ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.