The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

In the history of Jewish music, female duos are rare; Jewish female duos singing in the Yiddish language are rarer still. Not ...

The upheaval at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which has seen the organization’s president and members of its board ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...

Manfred Goldberg managed to survive the horrors of the Nazi death camps in the Second World War, losing his brother but being ...

A scholar of Jewish languages argues that Trump's use of the Hebrew word meaning hello, goodbye and peace stokes antisemitism ...

Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears ...

Sarah Bunin Benor, a scholar who studies Jewish languages, expresses how Trump is using the word “Shalom” to intentionally appropriate a Jewish word and warp its meaning and usage.

The term anticipatory obedience is popping up a lot these days to describe educators, politicians and bazillionaires who are ...

Manfred Goldberg managed to survive the horrors of the Nazi death camps in the Second World War, losing his brother but being miraculously ...