A coalition of strictly religious Jews and progressive, secular, and young Jews have been drawn to the language.
The area is about to welcome a notable new Jewish neighbor: a queer-friendly, Yiddish-speaking kosher cafe operated by Jewish self-described anarchists. At the Pink Peacock, customers will “pay ...
It’s titled “California.” He reads first in Yiddish — a linguistic blend of German with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic, and other European influences — and then in English. “The waves will cradle me and ...
More than 200,000 Jews lived in the area of modern Lithuania in 1918 ... and one would have been just as likely to hear the ...
When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade ...
Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world. By Joseph Berger Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English ...