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 ...

AMHERST--Interest in Yiddish is "growing by leaps and bounds," says the president of The Yiddish Book Center. "Just as we pioneered new technology to save Yiddish books and made them accessible to all ...

Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, who turned a boyhood fascination with Yiddish into a life’s work promoting the language, eventually earning a top prize in the field, died Thursday at Montefiore Medical Center ...

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(JTA) — Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy ...

The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source Literary Nobel winner I.B. Singer, whose centennial is much celebrated this year, once quipped that his ...

When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle ...

Ai-yi-yi! Let's kvetch about the fact that you have to schlep all the way to Brooklyn to schmooze in Yiddish nowadays. The data hints at a looming question that has troubled members of the Jewish ...