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

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

In this fiercely funny and heart wrenching one-woman tour-de-force based on her own life, writer/actor Roxana Ortega (best ...

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

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

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

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

When Fiddler on the Roof was staged at The Soraya at CSUN, audiences encountered more than Sholom Aleichem’s beloved ...

Erin becomes a media star and Genevieve — well, read the book to see what she becomes. Written well enough to keep my ...

With boundless energy, Bella organized Yiddish events in Israel and promoted its use through video and lectures ...

The Duchess of Kent, who died on Sept. 4, gave birth to a stillborn son named Patrick at full term in 1977 Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the ...

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