Retiree and former Jewish genealogist Carol Clingan was determined to help save a long-lost and abandoned mural in a former ...

An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her ...

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

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

Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish ...

From the playwright of The Last Schwartz and Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer's new play, The Last Yiddish Speaker, is a ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

What most Americans know of Yiddish is some strange sounding words (schnorer, tchatchke, fresser), and concepts like maven (expert), chutzpah (nerve), and kibitz (to look on and offer unwarranted ...

Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa accused Zohran Mamdani of hedging on Hamas at the mayoral debate, as Mamdani tried to reassure ...

In New York, there's a bit of Yiddish all around you. This is the after-effect of a stream of Eastern European Jews moving into the city at the turn of the last century, bringing their native tongue ...