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

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.

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 ...

This new translation of Bialik reveals how poetry confronts violence, faith, and politics — while speaking to India’s own struggles with translation and cultural memory ...

Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, ...

A government-approved, ideologically driven culture of consequences for disfavored speech will further erode the already ...

Coined by Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright in 1851, drapetomania was used to label a supposed “mental disorder” that made enslaved Black people run away from bondage. Dr. Cartwright used drapetomania to ...

Last week, in celebration of Hindi Diwas mayhap, the information and broadcasting ministry sent a complaint to news channels ...

The following is the transcript of a lecture delivered by Prof. Khachig Tölölyan on May 21, 2025 for the Hamazkayin New York ...

Forget the rise of trendy spas and saunas. In my mid-40s, I’ve learned that a good schvitz with men from the old country can ...