Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...

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 ...

While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...

If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

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A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from Torah study to play cards and games ...

A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!" In English, the lyrics mean: "When the ...

At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...

(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...

In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...