One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...

Explore the fascinating story behind The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a new chamber opera celebrating YIVO’s ...

Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...

Hebrew is the language of statehood—and also of study and prayer—yet the community we actually have is a polyphony stitched ...

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...

A newly translated memoir of the actress Esther Rachel Kamińska describes what Yiddish theater was like in the early 20th ...

(RNS) — Forget about shpilkes and shlepping. Yiddish contains moral weight. (RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching ...

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...

A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its ...