Six renowned experts in Yiddish studies will discuss the future of Yiddish, followed by a klezmer concert at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan on Monday, March 31st, at 5:30 p.m. In the ...

Jessica Kirzane, a scholar of Yiddish, discovered a charming children’s book last academic year in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. Di Kukavke Tshvitsheravke (The Chirruping ...

Who are you when they come knocking at your door? It’s the question at the core of “The Last Yiddish Speaker.” Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer in 2024, the story follows a Jewish father and daughter as ...

On Monday, December 27, folklore expert Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will discuss the history of how Yiddish was included as one of the languages utilized at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish ...

Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

For New York Yiddish fans, the concert at SummerStage in Central Park last Monday evening was a night to remember. Billed as the world’s largest Yiddish sing-along, the concert, produced by the ...

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.