This is a revised translated version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. One sunny day in spring 2021 ...

Columnist Gilda Dangot-Simpkin writes of her mother, a Holocaust survivor from Poland who was filled with worldly advice.

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

In one of the world’s earliest Yiddish comics, created by Samuel Zagat in 1912, Gimpel the Matchmaker strides ahead while glancing backwards over his shoulder. He’s moving steadily forward, but at the ...

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 ...