Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...

The Yiddish word "vants" means bedbug. What's False However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...

Oy, schlep, shpiel, schmuck, shtick and glitch. Yiddish words have long made their way into English, but the language, spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe for over a thousand years, was considered ...