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

Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production of George Gershwin's controversial classic about African Amercan life won a Tony Award ...

But first, Rosenfeld – who goes by Akay professionally – worked his laptop and mixing board for the crowd outside MetLife Stadium before the Giants hosted Philadelphia on Oct. 9. He played a mix of ...

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

Woodward is a poet and translator who wrote the books Borrowed Tales and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911. She co-translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli in Hospital Series, Obtuse Diary, The ...

New York City officials said on Wednesday they were working to address a rise in COVID-19 cases in parts of Brooklyn and Queens that was raising "a lot of concern." ...

VILNIUS — Standing in the back of the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania — an early 20th-century structure and the city’s ...

After the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Yiddish poet and scholar Ber Kotlerman, who lives in Hallamish, Israel, wrote a number of poems in reaction to that horrific day. Below are two that ...

Nadia Valman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research included in this article. Vivi Lachs received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for ...

The 10-story Brown Building, site of one of the deadliest workplace disasters in United States history, stands one block east of Washington Square Park in New York City. Despite three bronze plaques ...

The Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this “play with music” set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three ...

We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we have so many words for them! Bestie. Sis. Bro. Partner-in-crime. We’ve got a ...