Pittsburgh is gearing up to celebrate Yiddish culture with a vibrant lineup of upcoming events. Scheduled for Nov. 13-16, the ...

The preservation of Yiddish as a spoken language gets more attention, but Yiddish once had a vibrant written tradition as well. Plays, poetry, novels, political tracts — all were published in Yiddish ...

Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...

Intricate, outrageous plots; clever wordplay; catchy songs performed quickly. Hearing the work of opera composers William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (the British duo who collaborated from 1871 to ...

The beloved singer-songwriter shares stories from her autobiography, 'Canaan Alley,' at poetry festival relocated from Metula to Jerusalem ...

On page 613 of this newly translated novel by acclaimed Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, a poet named Khlavneh says to the family of his fiancée, “And who said I abandoned Jewishness? I left the synagogue ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. It’s been over a year since the ...