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.

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

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 ...

(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 ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

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