(New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In other words, “Yiddish song is in the air.” This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be ...

When Lasha Shakulashvili was a grad student at Tbilisi State University in 2022, he stumbled onto something unbelievable. In ...

In April 2020, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do for the many people who felt isolated, unable to go to work or to see their ...

Yiddish theater in Tbilisi dates back to the early 20th century, a time when Ashkenazi Jews began migrating to Georgia from the Russian Empire, fleeing persecution and economic hardship. By the late ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

No, you’re not seeing double. Clad in matching outfits, Yiddish singing duo The Shvesters (Yiddish for “The Sisters”) regularly perform to an audience of thousands on social media, currently sitting ...

This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took ...

With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For that reason, it is especially well-timed that the Yiddish Book Center has ...

As a member of the Riverdale-Yonkers Jewish community, I’ve heard for years about the Yom Hashoah Seder conducted by the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, also known as The Bayit. This year, as I debated ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

I always wanted to connect the African-American struggle in America with the Jewish struggle, so I decided to do it through ...